Place+Poems


 * Columbia, Maryland**

Air think with blossoms, Dropping softly on the ground. Ground still heated Hot with exhaustion Parking lot full Flashback Trees small and shriveled Wind ripping Not floating Frozen ground, empty of life And yet I was warmer then... Than now

by Emma Franzel

Hot in Africa Full of desserts People dying from deadly diseases Kids starving Families homeless Babies crying looking for their parents
 * Days in Africa**

by Daree


 * The Haunted Mansion**

You enter on a room with no doors, no windows. You see pictures rising above your head as the living...dies. You enter the corridor as the dusty chandeliers dangle over you with spider webs. You are locked in. find a way out. The pictures change from formal to death. The piano is playing. Every key drops down as the raven calls out to warn you. Madame leota is floating, the crystal ball speaks a chant to the dead. The attic is soft and still with Constantine the bride, holding an axe, ready for your head for her collection.

The ballroom lively and exciting, the master's birthday and all the music from the rusty pipe organ

The ghosts dance Into the graveyard the caretaker is scared. The dog trembling The hitchhikers ride with you in the buggy of doom. Out you go you've found a way out

By Carter Ross