Creating "Beautiful Ruin"

Old (or new) abandoned buildings have always intrigued me.  Grown-ups call them 'attractive nuisances' for kids.  But, they attract us all, don't they?  Sometimes they happen on purpose, sometimes they happen because of crises.  ( think hurricanes, tornadoes, war)  Others?

Extract from "Beautiful Ruin"

"Within peeling walls,

Where spiders and specters now dwell,

And hold court with the dust,"

This poem has been published in "Broad River Review Literary Journal" and the poetry collection "Big Questions, Little Sleep"

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Afterthoughts for "Beautiful Ruin"

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Pablo Picasso

We moralize among ruins.

Benjamin Disraeli