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. Pensive / Death / Metrical / Rhyme
as the sleepers

as the sleepers

​ I would that I were with those dead there in their restful deep, were still my bones in earthen …

 #abandoned #Christie Florit #grave #lonely #sonnet #terza rima
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. Pensive / Free Verse / Loss
Loneliness

Loneliness

The road is empty. just as it was yesterday and all the days stretching back to – when? He can’t …

 #abandoned #lonely #Patricia Curtis
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. Pensive / History / Metrical
Ghostly Homestead

Ghostly Homestead

Five withered skeletons survive to tell a luckless tale of what was in its day a ranch – a stable, …

 #abandoned #dreams #Eric Linden #farm
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. Pensive / Loss / Metrical / Rhyme
Brush Off the Dust

Brush Off the Dust

An open paddock miles from ‘Nowhere’. A picket fence in disrepair. Red dirt road winding through low hills. All around …

 #abandoned #anguish #desolate #grave #Maureen Clifford
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. Nostalgic / Free Verse / History
The Derelict Homestead

The Derelict Homestead

  Sparrows build scruffy nests between the decayed grass roof and sagging timbers. Always inquisitive, the Karoo breeze meanders in …

 #abandoned #lonely #melancholy #shelter #WW Schwim
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