Day 2 national Poetry Writing Month 

#NaPoWriMo

Our prompt for the day takes a leaf from Schuyler’s book, as it were, and asks you to write a poem about a specific place —  a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three and a half blocks from the post office”), the types of trees or flowers, the colour of the shirts on the people you remember there. Little details like this can really help the reader imagine not only the place, but its mood – and can take your poem to weird and wild places.

Happy writing!

Old Rectory

Standing in it`s mature garden
resides a beautiful old rectory
painted white with blue woodwork
holding on to so much history

house gates sit by the roundabout
tall metal posts painted bright blue
open every day to welcome everyone
all who need help to come through

long driveway takes you to the porch
through to a door lined hall way
with its wide sweeping staircase
still as elegant as in its heyday

disconnected servant`s bells
attached to the kitchen wall
as children sit at the kitchen table
eating their jam sandwich haul

dressed in matching blue jumpers
they swing their feet under chairs
until it`s time to go out to play
they can be just a cheeky pair

this is not just a working house
its a loving family home too
filled with wonderful memories
in this house with it`s gates so blue!

(c) Lissie Bull 2020