A House, a Home, a House…
There is something indescribably sad
when a house moved into becomes a home
and then becomes just a house again.
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Excellent
Thought I had commented on this previously, but not so, I guess. Sometimes the shortest verse can bring such deep emotion. And this one did. It describes so much more than a physical dwelling, it's inhabitance and it's desertion. It tells of cold turned warm, then cold again. Of love, completion and contentment, that dwindles... It makes the reader picture each room..empty, then full and joyful. Brings to mind children and all they add to "home." Then, the front door is left open as the moving van sits in front, it's ramp extended. Until, finally, the front door is closed and locked...and there is only silence.
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Ouch
Short but powerful
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Amicus - so true, and it often signals a time to move on, or move back, to a place where you find home again. Glad to see you're still here.
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yes there is something very sad with that. they say home is where the heart is...but theres nothing better, at 30 with a family of your own, than having Christmas dinner in same dining room you did when you were five. home is home. the security of that makes good people great people. i think.
good job with writing this. enjoyed the read.
blu
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Concise, and yet perfect. It captures something for me, and I hope it captured the depth of meaning for you.
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those few words ring of so much truth indeed. I can relate as we moved almost two years ago and I watched a home become only a house. Fortunately I believe the new house is slowly turning back into a home,
reenie
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I like this.
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there is so much in so few words--it is the mind and the feelings that make the house a home ,not mortar and bricks...those unsaid things will come to the reader when they read this...nice poem
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