30/30 National Poetry Month Challenge Continues

 

#houseiusedtolivein

There was a turret

With large glass windows

Storm and screen inserts

A large window

In the center

I could go out and

Sit on the porch roof

Bunk beds, Attic

So stuffy in summer

And freezing cold

In winter

Froze my glass bottle collection

Filled with colored water

Blues, reds, pinks

From bottles dug

From the cistern out back

Large porch

Perched on cinder block

Columns

Watching trick or treaters

Pass by

Wooden house

Orange kitchen

Fruit border above

Pale wood cabinets

Wooden mantels

And fireplaces long forgotten

Pocket doors hidden by paneling

The cool room

For music practice

Refuge from summer heat

Fans cool in summer

And heater warms only

Kitchen as skirt billows

Around register

Couch for stories at night

And the low rumble of thunder

Signals rain is near

While the train’s sound

Rocks the house to sleep