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[title] => Country House
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[bodytext] => Bored wind blows over and through thickets of uncared for grass. The sound of the blow hisses through the ragged roots and the physical part of the wind criss-crosses and intertwines with the partly thatched roofs of a sturdy yet, tired country house. The silent and sneaky force of nature known as 'damp' has found its way to this secluded trap and has long since penetrated the arthritic walls and stressed windows. The curtains, once beautiful and soft, have turned yellow and crusted like the pages of a once readable book that got a desperate soaking. From a hole in the farthest room, where guests were once entertained and fretted over, can be seen wonderful rolling hills with lightning white mares pondering the ground they feed from. A hand reaching to turn the knob of the front door will find it quite a nasty business as the damp has invaded its moulded brass and commands an army of sticky droplets that cling to clean palms. The elderly wooden floors will demonstrate their orchestra of creaking and snapping if stepped on and if one must venture on them further they may find their foot caught in the wrath of the un-kept floor. In the house you will find rooms haunted by wet echoes of the birds that call claim to the broken house or the slimy rain that creeps down from the lonely ceilings to greet the dust colonised carpets of Persian descent. See the burn mark left by the iron that so carefully used to straighten the work clothes and leisure suits that were put on when the weather saw an opportunity to give warmth and cheer to the land and its life forms. In a small and secret corner of the house is a room that holds all the belongings of the past inhabitants and is still locked and furnished with memories. Grand was the dining room where the family lay, under the antique wooden table and swift was the aircraft bomb that blew them to powder. All this and the paint forever peels. [comments] => 0 [counter] => 127 [topic] => 57 [informant] => NatKingCole [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => war )
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