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Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Subject: Hollow Houses-revised Song of the Hollow House
Time: 10:18:00 AM EDT
Author:  unboundpoet
Music:  some of you have this already, wanted to add it to my journal

    Song of The Hollow House

Shadow dreams and hollow houses
lay hushed in dusk, perfumed
Blackberry vines choke the porches
with lightless quietude
Resigned, in strangled surrender
the bramble holds me too

The bramble holds me too.

White milky breast has turned to dust
the suckling lips, gone pale
bleat a quivering lullaby
The barren cradle wails
Wrapped in wraithweb, the rocking chair
I cannot breech the veil

I cannot breech the veil.

Tired willows bow in sorrowsong
the path is overgrown
Ghostprints lost, grow indifferent moss
to suffocate the stone
Wild briars bridle ages cold
the ivy wraps my bones

The ivy wraps my bones.

Beetles heavy with bitter board
stand sentinel, until
bequeathed to worms, the ghosts are left
to linger on the hill
Withered hymn of hollow houses
soulsick lyric, be still

Be still
Be still
Be still.



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  • #2 Comment from puppeteerknight 
    5/11/04 6:45 PM | Permalink
    I don't think I could surpass my appreciation for this one other than my first review of it. Simply brilliant :-)
  • #1 Comment from moonhillwitch 
    5/11/04 10:27 AM | Permalink
    :::smiles:::  I like it, I like it!   :o)  Very nice Poet.