<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573239" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: An Empty House Remembers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The empty house around me ticks and creaks, <br>A moody end to evening's gentle rains, <br>A brooding quiet as the daylight wanes, <br>The secret language empty houses speak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What stories might this house preserve entire<br>In rhythmic code composed of click and groan? <br>Does House recall a sadness with each moan? <br>Is laughter stored in every plank and wire? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how might I, a fleeting visitor, <br>Acquire an ear for stories trapped in time, <br>And wrap a tale or two in words and rhyme? <br>How can I tap the House's secret lore? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In silence soft the house slips off to sleep.<br>Alone I sit, in darkness vast and deep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Russell+Collier">Russell Collier</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573239" data-title="Sonnet: An Empty House Remembers de Russell Collier" data-description="The empty house around me ticks and creaks, A moody end to evening's gentle rains, A brooding quiet as the daylight wanes, The secret language empty houses speak. What stories might this house preserve entire In rhythmic code composed of click..."></div> </div> </div>

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