Home life

Dave BontaContemplative

this is no prison just a workhouse

the door met with the street but not for love

yet I like it empty I spent the night in a book

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 17 April 1667.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
home, door, street, book

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