Cottage of Life

A beautiful wooden cottage

Perched on the mountains edge

Overlooking a sea of blue and green

Dotted with white and grey

A house that there once lived

A family of three

That loved and cherished

Every corner, wall and scar

With a garden of magnificent display

Bright flowers, vegetables and fruit

Small and big birds alike

Taking up every spot on the scarecrow

Now those flowers are welting

Vegetables and fruit left to rot

And not a single bird in sight

Only a pile of sticks and hay

Where the scarecrow once was

Now, looking through a window

There is simply no pane at all

Glass has shattered

Scattered all over the floor

Dust on every surface

An old smashed piano

Pushed into a corner

Only two legs for support

A pile of ripped photographs

Next to it, three piles of dust

The worst sight of them all.

Reviews

[S.zaynab.kamoonpury]

Stark and dreary but u captured it so perfectly that we can picture the abandoned house poetically with your excellent descriptive powers. Kudos I must say.


Soo nice to read from u again, Pleez do write your thoughts comment under my newest poem too.

[Ayushi Jha]

Absolute beauty!
In love with the piece.

[Rheia]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it, it's also one of my personal favourites! :)

[ElizaB]

Thank you for entering your poem.

I really enjoyed it. Your words are linear, clear and the imagery you created was fantastic. Plus I like your title!

Well done!

[FJ Davis]

Stark imagery portrays an even starker and darker perspective.
A stunning piece of work, Rheia!

[Rheia]

Thank you for your kind words! I very much appreciate it :)