What a haunting place this is,
the old cottage;
Derilect and stilled;
Roof tiles clinging to rotting timbers
and weed strewn garden that was long since tilled.
Rusted hinges, weary of toil,
Have long since shed their load;
The stout oak door vanquished;
No more the gallant knight who challenged Winter's cold.
Shafts of late Autumn sunshine
illuminates the neglect within;
The cracked red brick wall
wounded like a heart once broken;
The recipient of some mortal sin.
Oh what calm pervades this scene of cobwebbed, dusty gloom;
Where phantom dwellers reign
And ghostly whispers reverberate
Around the empty rooms.
©?\n\nColin Ayling
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/whispers-in-the-cobwebs/
the old cottage;
Derilect and stilled;
Roof tiles clinging to rotting timbers
and weed strewn garden that was long since tilled.
Rusted hinges, weary of toil,
Have long since shed their load;
The stout oak door vanquished;
No more the gallant knight who challenged Winter's cold.
Shafts of late Autumn sunshine
illuminates the neglect within;
The cracked red brick wall
wounded like a heart once broken;
The recipient of some mortal sin.
Oh what calm pervades this scene of cobwebbed, dusty gloom;
Where phantom dwellers reign
And ghostly whispers reverberate
Around the empty rooms.
©?\n\nColin Ayling
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/whispers-in-the-cobwebs/
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00:00What a haunting place this is.
00:02The old cottage.
00:04Derelict and stilt.
00:06Roof tiles clinging to rotting timbers.
00:09And weed-strewn garden that was long since tilled.
00:12Rusted hinges, weary of toil.
00:15Have long since shed their load.
00:17The stout oak door vanquished.
00:20No more the gallant knight who challenged winter's cold.
00:23Shafts of late autumn sunshine.
00:26Illuminates the neglect within.
00:29The cracked red brick wall.
00:31Wounded like a heart once broken.
00:34The recipient of some mortal sin.
00:36Oh what calm pervades this scene of cobwebbed, dusty gloom.
00:40Where phantom dwellers reign.
00:43And ghostly whispers reverberate.
00:45Around the empty rooms.
00:48Copyright.