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Ron63
Junior Member

since 2012-03-18

Posts 49
Suffolk, Eng, UK

0 posted 2012-04-20 02:56 PM

Before I retired I used to work on the local golf course that had four very old barns and this poem was inspired by one barn in particular where we used to have our breaks and lunch.

Old Suffolk barn
rustic, ragged
weather-beaten forts
with twisting,  beamed interiors
and cloudy red rooftops
over silk thread nets
in dark corners
and hungry spiders with twitchy legs
feeling for their lunch. .

Mice, scout in hidden holes
for fragments of food,
darting,  in and out
of crumbled bricks
performing circus acts
on dried out sticks,
brought in  by the farmer’s dog.

Tucked away, above,
on a jointed  beam,
a mud house
of twittering swallows,
and parents swooping in
with beaks full of flies.

Chicks squabbling,
screeching,
gobbling,
growing,
ready to fly.

The barn , now quiet,
but not quite empty;
spiders and mice
are still busy

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-04-20 02:59 PM

Ah, makes me think of my grandparents old red barn where I used to chase outlaws and redskins in my fertile imagination.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Ron63
Junior Member

since 2012-03-18

Posts 49
Suffolk, Eng, UK

2 posted 2012-04-20 03:14 PM

We played Cowboys and Indians in England, but kiddies don't do that anymore. Thanks for reading.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2012-04-20 03:15 PM

I know they don't shame on the world.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

4 posted 2012-04-20 06:01 PM

Cool, my friend ... didn't have any barns in my area (So. La. around Jerry's territory), but we did play a lot of cowboys and indians and I used the garage for a barn and would leap off the roof and de-horse the redskins!!

Still have scars on my knees (all short pants back then - cheaper) where I missed my mark!

good memory provoker!!

j.

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

5 posted 2012-04-21 06:14 AM

Makes me think of the old farm barn back
in Minden Ontario.....Just like this one.....Well done!

Eric

true love never looks after it's own interests

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2012-04-24 12:53 PM

Fine writing...James

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

7 posted 2012-04-24 11:32 AM

You bring the vision to life and take your reader with you...I love it and the vision it invokes...

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