price

price

 

big empty house full of hollow rooms

dust and time sprinkled on every cold surface

residue of laughter still lingers like the sweet scent

of last night’s warm gooey chocolate chip cookies

 

devoured happiness haunts this stale silence

rare golden chalice sparkles just beyond the trembling

outstretched fingers of a wild-eyed fool

who squandered a fortune in hope and joy

 

the lofty  price of a frigid fancy kingdom

Reviews

[MuSe Ampoule]

Immensely powerful write here with stark cold images popping into the mind's eye. Reminds you...what's important...the big empty status rooms or a loving family? The answer seems obvious but so many people ignore the need for love and family in pursuit of social climbing.

How empty and cold life can be without the beating warmth of loving hearts.

[Liza]

all the riches do not fulfill emptiness inside; the more we look out for value, the lesser we focus fulfillment to our internal treasures within. the imagery is brilliant

[Kerry O'Connor]

This empty room with all its hollow and haunting words stirs the memories of the reader... What has been lost to time and bad decisions? what can be regained? what can't be replaced?

[Robin]

yeah .. man, the way you cast images .. deep shadows