Shuttered Windows

UNSUPPORTED CODE `Shuttered windows The absence of any corporeal presence Is counterbalanced by the ethereal essence Of the Human Spirits still in residence In forlorn foyers and empty rooms Vacant eyes peer in unspoken plaint through dust hazed windows... seeking the solace of eternal memories Of long passed children…and weeping widows Clock long stopped pon dusty mantel Hands posed o’er numerals Roman No longer giving...and long past caring Of the duty of time and chiming of man Dust motes that caper in fairy dance fashion Forming in miniature...galaxies and universes Inquisitive rays of sunshine that leak through And peek through the regimented rows Of the slats in tidily ordered lines In sombre repose behind …`Shuttered windows...