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Timeless Enchantment Revisited

Perched on high bluffs above the river Kaw.
On a snake curved street named Shawnee Road.
Sits a haunted mansion historic draw,
Known as Sauer's Castle, the ghost's abode.

For generations as the story goes.
Misty apparitions fade and flow.
Stoking cold fires in rich marbled stone,
balustrades of cherry, in this stately home.

Faint flickers spike from gaslight wall sconces,
Flashed light erupts from fine Austrian glass.
Fear shocked visitors sit back on their haunches,
From misty spectors from the distant past. 

 

A mengling of the living, with the deceaced.

Sauer's  magnet of the living and it's dead,

An active haunt,with it's own mystic,

captivates and always goes to your head! 

Opulence once graced this foreboding home.
Anton spared no expense in importation.
This home was warmth and it's certainly shown,
And their reluctance to leave, it's implication!

Author notes

Tunnels once a must from the river dock below to the home. Because of harsh Winters. Were collapsed in my own lifetime by an underground cold storage company's use .Some of the dynamit blasts heard underground might attribute to the legendary wrought iron rattles seen and heard inside the home.Because the cold storage company blasted caves beneath the steep hillside leading up from the Kaw,(Kansas) river. Older brother of mine and friends located cave opennings back in the late forties.Supplies for the Sauers and others who occupied the house were brought up river on barges.This rough piece is no more than my sharing childhood scares and fond memories with readers.I simply couldn't resist.

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  • Well Done!

    Congratulations on the gold . I really enjoyed reading your enchanting poem. It was a great contest.

  • Congrats on the Gold ...

    well deserved

    ~ Judie ~

  • you have given the house that something special ... great write

    good luck in the contest

    ~Judie ~

  • I am so glad you wrote this! You have certainly brought this place alive. I now want to go there, BUT, not alone! Your AN makes it all the better! Thank you for entering!


    • suseann
      June 8

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      Hey thanks for awarding it gold. I never expected that it might place. You know...I think my childhood spent around this place may be why I'm drawn to a healthy curiousity for the paranormal . Love watching TAPS! Transatlantic Paranormal Sociaty/Ghost Hunters International. Huge fan.

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