1
When I think of this house
In years to come
I won’t remember the rooms
Tucked up in a cozy rectangle
nor the gardens, their clever quilt squares
With flowers like tossed pillows
Around the outside.
I will remember the silence
Blanketing each evening
2
Tucked up in my old chair
Reading poetry
After a long cold walk
The house felt warm
When I first got back
Now it’s a little chilly
But I’m too cozy
Tucked up in my favorite old chair
To get up for a blanket
for the dverse quadrille prompt of 10/5/20: blanket
OctPoWriMo #5 (off prompt)
Xanku 
You paint a vivid picture with each stanza. The first one feels maybe melancholy? Maybe peace? The second one feels warm.
Always a bit of melancholy in peace, and a bit of peace in melancholy (hmmm, that’s the start of a poem, isn’t it)
🙂 Uh-huh
Sounds like those mornings you wake up, tired and shivering but the thought of getting out of bed is worse!!
very nice in a familiar way we all can touch/feel
There is a bitter sweetness to this poem Zan, well written!
The young don’t understand the power of the bittersweet
I love two quadrilles for the price of one, Xan! The first for its pondering about the future of a house, something I do about the house in which I’ve lived for twenty years now. I too love ‘the silence / Blanketing each evening’. The second for a similar reason – I also have a favourite chair! It also creates a comforting image, the thought that someone else, somewhere, does a similar thing in a similar chair. But I always have my blanket handy. 😊
The chair has a history:
How nice to be tucked up in your favourite chair reading poetry: that’s blanket enough, sometimes!
And oh so hard to get back up!
I suppose the silence in the first one could be taken as it being too silent and empty, but I chose to think of it as peaceful, and the second one sounds cozy. One of my favorite things to be tucked up in a chair, a blanket, and with a book.
That’s it exactly–the silence is all at once comforting, oppressive, odd.
Yes, I can understand that.
I love the comfort in the second quadrille.
Love the bitter-sweet quality of this one! 💝