Old Buildings Speak Poem by Marianne Reninger

The same stanza frames the poem appropriately because repetition is the theme of your poem: each of the scenes you PAINT in the four enclosed stanzas is a different OLD BUILDING but what goes on in it is repeated again and again. In fact, witnessing such repetition is another way of keeping time, of measuring not changes over time but persistence through time. Just as we both change and persist: our bodies age and dcay but our thoughts and loves persist. There are such depths in your poem which thinking about it brings to the surface of consciousness.

Echoes of past heard through an artistic heart with fondness and sensitivity. Loved your poem. I visited your web site too. Beautiful work of art you have there. Thank you for sharing.

What a wonderful experience to read this poem. Like a nostalgic flipping through black-and-white pictures.

Nothing like driving through the country and stopping to look at old barns and farmhouses. Thank you for taking me there again. :)

Beautifully written, its worded lyrically songlike in its density, some people think poetry is about rhyming, but its not, the best poets evoke moods and scenes of power with their words, this is one of them. I always felt that buildings develop personalities based on the people who inhabit them, that ghosts are the souls of the brick and mortar made conscious. This is true poetry every word is perfect, like a piece of art.

I apologize. We've had a heat wave here and it has been driving me out of the house to seek coolness. I am glad that today is cool because I wanted to read this poem and take the time to absolutely wallow in its words and images and tones. You are an awesome writer. You treasure words and spend them wisely and precisely. You use them like oil paints- blending them on your palette in special magical ways. I try to pick out a favorite line and I end up with every single line in this poem being my favorite which to me means that you do not slop out excess words and lines- you have kept your lines lean and sharp, not blurry and muddled..I am enamored of poems that can and do repeat the first stanza in the last stanza- it rounds the poetic experience for me. I have gotten excited over several poets on this site- -but I think you may very well be the brightest star in PoemHunter's sky. Absolutely stunning and as perfect as a human being can write. Dang, I wish this was mine! ! ! ! If other poetry receives 10's, then this one deserves a 10000000000000000000000000000+.

I apologize. We've had a heat wave here and it has been driving me out of the house to seek coolness. I am glad that today is cool because I wanted to read this poem and take the time to absolutely wallow in its words and images and tones. You are an awesome writer. You treasure words and spend them wisely and precisely. You use them like oil paints- blending them on your palette in special magical ways. I try to pick out a favorite line and I end up with every single line in this poem being my favorite which to me means that you do not slop out excess words and lines- you have kept your lines lean and sharp, not blurry and muddled. .I am enamored of poems that can and do repeat the first stanza in the last stanza- it rounds the poetic experience for me. I have gotten excited over several poets on this site- -but I think you may very well be the brightest star in PoemHunter's sky. Absolutely stunning and as perfect as a human being can write. Dang, I wish this was mine! ! ! ! If other poetry receives 10's, then this one deserves a 10000000000000000000000000000+.