Ghosts of Children
Wherewith hath come
The screeching wind
That withered frame
And emptied rooms,
That sent mice racing
To their holes,
While ghosts of children
Play in the grass?
Oh, the times they change
But life moves on,
Yet their skeletons
Stay behind
With stark remains
Of joy and pain
While ghosts of children
Play in the grass.
Cris Coleman
August 15, 2015
Link back to Weekly Photo Challenge: Creepy
You’re welcome to visit my Barns! Barns! Barns! photostream in flickr where you can register for free and upload your own photos of old barns, farm houses and other related items.
The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i’ the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch’d to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Clamour’d the livelong night: some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
(Macbeth, 2.3)
f-stop fantasy 
Definitely looks haunted! I love how the clouds match the ominous appearance. Really good find. Can you get in to shoot? Would you?
There wasn’t a “No Trespassing” sign on the property, but it was just outside a small town with some traffic going back and forth. I didn’t feel like it would be a good idea to go in with my car parked in the driveway. So, I thought the better side of caution was to pass on. 🙂
Creepy indeed – we all abandoned have houses like this in our childhood somehow too
Growing up in large cities, I never really saw a lot of houses like this until I moved to the Midwest. Now I find them everywhere. It’s sad.
We used to have one top of the hill where we lived in rural south coast England – very spooky!
I think you have lots of spooky places in England from what I have seen in various TV programs. i’d love to visit some of those old castles and such that have sort of degraded over the years.
Not been toı the UK for 10 years, but remember some of them well
oh, okay. you emigrated somewhere. How do you like it where you are compared to UK?
I’m a naturalised Türk, fruit farming in the south west. Take a peek at my bio as an intro if you like.
Will do. 🙂
The photo works really well for the challenge. I think it is creepy in part because there are a few signs of modern life there, the ac unit and the TV dish, but it also looks abandoned.
Nice!
Thank you. 🙂
It looks like one of those normal yet haunted, spooky houses you see in movies. Everything is normal from the outside, it just a regular old house but once you walk in… life will never be the same!
And I wasn’t about to find out for reasons already mentioned. LOL
Oh! The sight of the house is quite unsettling….as if it’s ready to devour the living souls…!
Very apt picture. Thanks for dropping by and commenting on my blog…much appreciated… 🙂
You’ve a new follower… 😀
Thank you and you’re welcome. Would you say “creepy”? Hee. Hee. I usually spend several hours, this day more than most, cruising around the various weekly photo challenges to see how different people see things differently. Plus, it sometimes gives me new ideas.
True…viewing a particular subject from different perspectives gives rise to newer ideas… 🙂
That look like a haunted house.
One never knows about these things, but because it was on private property, I decided not to go in and find out, even though there were no No Trespassing signs in sight.
This house is a great find for photographing. Good post
Thank you, Amanda. When I pass by such scenes, I try to seize the moment.
Thank you for dropping by! I love barns too.
My pleasure, bebs. I’ve spent the entier evening just browsing around looking at Creepy posts. 🙂
I love old houses and old barns. Oh the stories they could tell if walls could talk.
I agree. Makes me wish I had ESP or something when I pass by these old relics. You might want to check out my Barns! Barns! Barns! site as linked to on my website. It was originally intended to showcase old barns, but there are all sorts of barns, new and old. Still it is great. 🙂
That’s an amazing old house and I love your Ghosts of Children poem. It’s all delightfully creepy!
Thank you, Trisha. Your comment made me smile — “delightfully creepy” — I love that. I was looking for something to go with the photo and that just sort of spilled out. LOL
Like the poetry and pic, Cris. I often pass abandoned homes/farms and wonder what went on in their heyday. Good job!
I do the same. I take a lot of photos of these old relics and wish BigAg hadn’t ruined the small farmer. I know there were other reasons, too, but they didn’t help matters any. My 6+ years in SW Iowa were probably the best years of my life, or close to it, anyway.
Yep, that house is creepy. Nice job with the poem and the picture choice!
Thank you, Karuna. I couldn’t think of anything to write, so that is what came out. LOL
Sometime the best things come that way.
My last poem came out that way, too, about 2½ years ago. LOL
Thinking just gets in the way. So often if we “let go” and “be” the words will come on their own. Easier said than done of course!
What a great house… I love it!
The house is just outside of a very small town, village, really, and I was tempted to take a peek inside, as there wasn’t any No Trespassing signs anywhere in evidence, but I chickened out because, one, I was a stranger in the area, and, two, surprisingly, there was an occasional car passing by. i love these old houses also, old barns, too.
I do that. If there are no signs around… However, you’ve gots to very careful. You never know what you’ll find, including people! But it’s very fun, sort of like being a detective.
For some reason your comment reminds me of when I was in high school. My junior high school had been arsoned and I was walking around and came across a ramp that led into a very dark ???. I never knew there was an underground anything at the school. I wanted to go down there, but I was too scared, afraid I’d find someone down there who would do damage to my body. I’d probably still not go down there if I were confronted with such a scene today. LOL
You know, I do NOT go into places more than I actually do. Why? Because I use my instincts, my gut and my common sense. If a place obviously looks like you shouldn’t enter, I don’t. But more than that, it’s how it FEELS. I could tell many, many stories…
Sounds like a blog in the making — “many, many stories”. LOL
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