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Open Poetry #15

Unwilling To Excavate

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2001-08-16 05:16 PM

Abandoned
Stone foundations
Now stuttering
As they try
And speak of
The who and what
That once was

Encroaching
On once upon a place

Vegetation returns

Crumbling the
carefully planned
With roots gnarling
In cracks left
By time

No tales to tell
That are not buried
In layers of forgetting
I stand and stare

Empty eyed
like the broken
Pains
Of windows that
Are no
More

[This message has been edited by Cpat Hair (edited 08-16-2001).]

Lady In White

Member Elite

since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

1 posted 2001-08-16 05:25 PM

You've been visiting Highland again....thank you for bringing this back with you...

well done, Sir...

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

2 posted 2001-08-16 06:54 PM

Excellent piece my friend

http://members.home.net/excalibur2501/interloper.htm

SmittenKitten
Senior Member

since 2001-06-20

Posts 1131
where the sky and horizon meet

3 posted 2001-08-16 06:56 PM

Nature is swallowing them up! Beautifully penned sir

I enjoyed it very much....I felt like I was exploring them with you.
~Krista

rwood
Member Elite

since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

4 posted 2001-08-18 08:21 AM

I too have a hard time seeing the ruin of something once grand and architecturally beautiful. They built them with such craftsmanship (now an art of the past) that the blood, sweat and tears still shine. It's like erasing a masterpiece, nail by block.
Wonderful verse.
Sincerely,
Regina

Kit McCallum

Administrator

Member Laureate

since 2000-04-30

Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada

5 posted 2001-08-18 08:25 AM

Beautifully descriptive Cpat ... the imagery and flow in this piece are wonderfully crafted, very much enjoyed!

Best wishes,
/Kit

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