The world seems a strange place tonight.
I feel as an alien
in a foreign land...
I sit, where I oft do, out-of-doors, alone,
participating in the sunset.
The air familiar and cool.
The view a beauty understood.
The birds singing the old song of wonder.
The dusk becoming.
I have been here, it seems, so long...
yet, I don't know this place.
I can't get myself to feel I belong.
Just when I think I can look all about me
and know where I'm at,
the sun sets.
It's dark,
and I find myself still,
in an unknown world, wondering,
where is home, for me?
Where is home, for us all?
- I set my old chair
against the wall,
secure in the evening,
I say, 'Goodnight ol' friend'
to the full moon;
walk back into the dwelling,
a chagrin between walls,
a discomfiture under a roof.
Safe and sound in sleep and survival,
and yet so still, I wonder...
I wonder,
where is Home?
It's always a pleasure to read your poetry. It's like a gentle tune. Soft and comforting. Congratulations on poem of the day! Well deserved x
A wonderful poem dear poet. Many congratulations for this excellent poem being selected as Poem of the Day.
It starts out pleasant enough, gets a bit spooky, the it gets sort of sad with the sense of uneasiness. Well, it's probably 'heaven' compared to the some people live with. bri
I'll call this a 'spooky Smoky-poem'. If it is all true, I send my condolances to the poet. If it is all 'made up', I send my congratulations on your skills. If it's some of each, I send 'some of each' perhaps.
chagrin: one definition: 'noun A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event' dang, he needs a roommate.: ( a nice one.
Smoky, I can't say I've had an experience like this one in your poem, not that I remember. But to answer your question, check out (reread?) Hebrews 11: 13-16. It tells of your home. -Glen
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Transcendental verse! I've often found myself standing still, only to find everything around me changing. This verse goes to myfavourites.