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11 October 2009
Home: Abandoned House with Cool Poem
Home Where Nobody Lives Photo by erix! @ flickr
From Denny: While researching for a recent poem I'm doing I ran across this photo and its wonderful poem. Enjoy!
From the photographer:
There's a house on my block
That's abandoned and cold
Folks moved out of it a
Long time ago
And they took all their things
And they never came back
Looks like it's haunted
With the windows all cracked
And everyone call it
The house, the house where
Nobody lives
Once it held laughter
Once it held dreams
Did they throw it away
Did they know what it means
Did someone's heart break
Or did someone do somebody wrong?
Well the paint was all cracked
It was peeled off of the wood
Papers were stacked on the porch
Where I stood
And the weeds had grown up
Just as high as the door
There were birds in the chimney
And an old chest of drawers
Looks like no one will ever
Come back to the
House were nobody lives
Once it held laughter
Once it held dreams
Did they throw it away
Did they know what it means
Did someone's heart break
Or did someone do someone wrong?
So if you find someone
Someone to have, someone to hold
Don't trade it for silver
Don't trade it for gold
I have all of life's treasures
And they are fine and they are good
They remind me that houses
Are just made of wood
What makes a house grand
Ain't the roof or the doors
If there's love in a house
It's a palace for sure
Without love...
It ain't nothin but a house
A house where nobody lives
Without love it ain't nothin
But a house, a house where
Nobody lives.
By Tom Waits
Mule Variations (1999)
House Where Nobody Lives
On the photographer's profile page of erix! who is a social worker:
Beauty may be hidden in shape
Truth may be hidden in words
Wisdom may be hidden in pictures
Love may be hidden in souls
Let us make things visible
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