The old front porch
Ashen boards creaking brittle
Her moaning greets as a returning friend
With aromas of the rotting timber
My second step to bow and bend
Phantom kids I see, sit upon the squeaky rusty swing
And all alone the rocking chair …
Aging, graying with thickening dust
Gaze off across the yard from where they both just sit and stare
Weeds, the new homesteaders…
Filling every crack of vacancy
Door and screens cringing, hang on to every hinge
Up above the nestled mocking birds can’t help but exercise their laughing agency
Behind them and under roof…
Click, click, click… the squirrels with storing nuts
Running in and out of unknotted holes
While spiders spin in every nook
Prehistoric Rain barrels…
Spilling over ancient emerald green
My boyhood house front
I hold in high esteem
Of times I played here in the morn and in the eve
This veranda within my heart I hold a special torch
Of all the dreams I dreamed here
Upon this my favorite but, now decaying rustic porch
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 951 |
Words | 171 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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