Prompt # 27 Longing

For today's prompt, I want you to write a poem of longing. You or someone (or something) else should be pining for someone or something. Maybe a cat is longing to get outside the house. Maybe a teenager is longing to get away from his or her small town. And, of course, there's always the longing poem of love.

Longing for a Homecoming

All houses left alone beseech their owners
to come home. They ache to mend a broken
gutter trail, or see to weeds that flourish
in the quiet yard beside the fallen trellis.
I’ve heard the mocking shouts of crows
that pick the scars of houses lost in yesteryear.

They are fond of scolding lonely homes
whose windows morn their broken shades.
They perch atop such chimneys in the cold
whose prayers to bring back fires go
unanswered. Some empty homes
will crumble in the waiting, they can’t
hang on when dreams are what a household
makes of planks and stone and lace.

4/30/2009 12:00:47 PM #650