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DARK HOUSE (A Poem)

Dark House

a poem

by Aman Mittal

A big dark house I made it myself Brick by brick From a corner to top Hollow from inside Narrow by side Without an attic Roof is flat But a big cellar At the bottom Locked and shut Connected with tunnels Marrow and shallow Left incomplete To banish the escape Not a soul to dwell But to consist Only my dead thoughts.

A big dark house

I made it myself

Brick by brick

From a corner to top

Hollow from inside

Narrow by side

Without an attic

Roof is flat

But a big cellar

At the bottom

Locked and shut

Connected with tunnels

Marrow and shallow

Left incomplete

To banish the escape

Not a soul to dwell

But to consist

Only my dead thoughts.

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Read books by day and blogs about them at night. In his mid-twenties, been blogging about books for 5 years now.

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  • Susanne Leist says: November 9, 2014 at 9:53 AM I like it. Nice and creepy.
  • Pamela Spiro Wagner says: November 27, 2014 at 1:30 PM "Connected with tunnels Marrow and shallow Left incomplete To banish the escape" Hi Aman, I wasn't sure if the "marrow" here was a typo for "narrow" or not, but I accepted it at face value. I love it as is. WOW. Some of the language here is -- well, you are a poet, so you know...You use brevity to express so much more than what is actually said by the words themselves and even then, sometime the way you say things in your poems is just stark and unusual. I love that. Very very nice.

I like it. Nice and creepy.

  • Aman(@amanhimself) says: November 9, 2014 at 11:22 AM Thanks :)

Thanks :)

"Connected with tunnels

Marrow and shallow

Left incomplete

To banish the escape"

Hi Aman, I wasn't sure if the "marrow" here was a typo for "narrow" or not, but I accepted it at face value. I love it as is. WOW. Some of the language here is -- well, you are a poet, so you know...You use brevity to express so much more than what is actually said by the words themselves and even then, sometime the way you say things in your poems is just stark and unusual. I love that. Very very nice.

  • Aman(@amanhimself) says: November 27, 2014 at 7:29 PM Thanks :)

Thanks :)

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