Challenge 2: February - A Poem a Day #5

I've been working on a documentary, it involves this beautiful castle. I was shooting video of it yesterday, and I was thinking the whole time, "Gosh, I'd love to live in a castle like this." It's really the perfect size -- just grand enough to be a castle, but small enough to be acceptable.

 Feb. 8, 2013

scanning the hillside,
   eyes resting on a red stone castle

looming,
   out of place
even in this strange country
of manikin-leg statues and yard tubs,
of tepees and pinwheels

it's brick
   glows fiery
and speaks a tale,
out of grasp,
it beckons

signs scream,
   you shall not pass

but, it's burnt in the mind now,
   look up and it's there
it's red flaming gaze
ghostly,
magnificent

alone on that hillside
   a red stone castle

Soundtrack to The End of the World

1. It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
2. The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels
3. We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
4. It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
5. Sugar, We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy
6. World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan
7. Waking up in Vegas - Katy Perry
8. Shake it Up - The Cars
9. Til the World Ends - Britney Spears
10. Ironic - Alanis Morissette
11. It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.

and

12. Me And Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Paul Simon

Enjoy it here if you have Spotify: Soundtrack to the End of the World
You can also add to it or tell me your additions, and I'll add them.