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Hollow House: A Poem

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May 05, 2026
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Hollow House

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Hollow house where once I lived,
To me nothing more you give;
Me you sheltered and you fed,
And with notions filled my head,
Of what to be, and to do,
Sending me away from you.

Long the journey to far climes,
With its fat and famished times,
Mountains scaled and valleys plumbed,
Where…

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