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Open Poetry #35

The Empty Room

froggy
Senior Member

since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

0 posted 2005-06-15 01:50 AM

The Empty Room

The room is empty
except for a desk,chair
where the writer once sat
composing words she loved.

     The
drapes are now pulled,
silence fills the room
where once the
sounds of keys clicking,
paper being wadded up sounded

     And now
no longer will be heard nor
the music that once softly
played

     The notebooks
now lay neatly in place
ready to gather dust
as does the pen once held
in a gentle hand

     For
her words are no more
as that door is now closed
to a world she once
knew,loved.

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

1 posted 2005-06-15 05:40 AM

Ella
An image of Emily Dickinson popped into my mind when I read this, And a then a vision of Anne Sextons writing room, or perhaps it was the room where Sara Teasdale wrote...

anyway, like poetry does to me, it took me somewhere else and I enjoyed the relief from everyday life...

------------------ice
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Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

2 posted 2005-06-15 10:51 AM

I can picture her there, writing in soft light. This transported me to another place and time. Well done.

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

3 posted 2005-06-15 11:01 AM

Well done indeed!!!

froggy
Senior Member

since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

4 posted 2005-06-21 11:36 PM

Thank-you for the wonderful comments.

:-)

<^^> Today the pond....Tomorrow the world

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