Ashleigh Brooke Lindley

Old Fort, North Carolina, USA

I have been writing poetry since high school. I also write some articles for the newspaper. My favorite hobbies other than writing, consist of playing the guitar and piano. I also love to sing.I am presently working on a book of poetry. that has taken almost three years to complete. My poetry has been published in local newspapers and by The National Library of Poetry. My greatest joy in life is serving God and taking care of my family, my husband Charles daughter Amy and sons Scott and Jonathan God has blessed me with a talent to write poetry.

Dark Forest

In the thick dark forest, silence sang an eerie
song.
A song which time has left behind, once here but
now is gone.

The forest seems to lure me, in a strange and scary
way.
So once again I find myself, walking here
today.
The trees trick their shadows, with lean and lanky
shapes.
And sometimes hovers all around, like a set of rave
drapes.
I wondered as I walked along, what keeps calling for
me here?
The I heard a sound that made, my blood run cold
with fear.
Hark! I hear a footstep, and it seems close
behind.
But when I turned around to look, there was nothing
there to find.
I walked a little further, then turned around once
more to see,
I knew then it was the foot-steps, of my past that
followed me.....

The Old Black Trunk

I was looking at an old house, that I wished to
buy,
When I saw the saddest thing on earth, it made me
want to cry.
Far back in a corner in a room, time has
forgot,
Stood an old black wooden trunk, in a dark secluded
spot.

I walked across the room and wiped the dust, off
the top.
I couldn't seem to help myself, I couldn't seem to
stop.
I opened up the lid that groaned, with all it's years
of rest,
And inside the old black trunk, the items told the
story best.

A wedding dress, a picture, of a woman and a
man.
And an old worn out certificate, that had joined them
hand in hand,
Left alone, to tell a story, with NO-ONE to care at
all.
I wiped my eyes, closed the door, and walked off
down the hall.......