A Stately Home
Grand lodges they
stone gate posts
on top, a dreadful bogey
all teeth, horns, tail
enemies run for their lives
at first sight of them
The house, a real live house
grown as the world grew
only an upstart fellow would
change it for some spick-and-span
new Gothic or Elizabethan thing
Large crooked chimneys
altered again and again
till they ran one into another
Tom fairly lost his way
in pitchy darkness
© Andrew Wilson, 2023
This is a found poem with words derived from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley. The title – Evolution, is because Kingsley was a naturalist around the exciting time when the work of Wallage and Darwin were revolutionising the worlds of science, geology and biology and there will be found poems that reference this aspect of the tale. But so far, the finding of poems has been more like the method for refining poems since Kingsley writes very lyrical passages anyway…
The image is derived in Midjourney.
This series was inspired by my friend Misky over at It’s Still Life who has been producing a series of Found Poems…