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Home Poems | Examples of Home Poetry

Home Poems - Examples of all types of home poetry to share and read. This list of home poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of home poetry. This list of works about home is an excellent resource for examples on how to write home poems.
Premium Member The Place Where I Stay
H: happiness is when a smile just keeps running towards forever trying to catch the sunset before the moon yawns good morning O: orphaned my fears because I no longer run toward their prescribed label, I...Read the rest...
Categories: home, adventure, emotions, friendship, friendship
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Acting on Impulse
Friendships, wordy scripts, cameras, microphones and venue blips. Call security, no need to be shirty, let's go again.. scene five, take thirty. Action. Cut. Time for tea. The bar is closed but coffee's free. The...Read the rest...
Categories: film, friendship, home, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Climate Change Starts at Home
Climate change starts at home Lower the temperature under your dome Never raise your voice, let alone scream ...Read the rest...
Categories: home, symbolism, weather,
Form: Couplet
More Than Pretty
Home is more pretty Inspire us daily to live Life we aspire for....Read the rest...
Categories: caregiving, home, inspiration, love,
Form: Haiku
Sun Room
Sitting in the sun room At a nearby hotel Reading a new book All was going well Ringing, the phone danced I had an incoming call “Who is this?” I wondered And answered it I chanced The...Read the rest...
Categories: family, home,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I AM THE HOUSE MOUSE - PART 2
They won’t get me with crude device. I may be mouse but I am wise. There’s ample food for me to eat and every day I find a treat. Jill notices the trap...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, home,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Mouse Or A Mountain
Growing up, I was the runt of the litter. My siblings called me Cute, because I was the youngest one. It was very hard growing up as a little mouse, gray with tiny white spots. I saw myself as big as...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, family, giggle, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I AM THE HOUSE MOUSE - PART 1
Beneath old floorboards I reside, from where I wander far and wide I climb cavities in each wall taking great care so I don’t fall. The family here are Jack and Jill and their baby by...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, home,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Home Wanderer
" 3. " I have been a stranger in a strange land. " Bible, Exodus 2:22" Home Wanderer Long dusty path Long gone my home Home miles behind Home gone alone Alone I walk Alone I seek Seek new horizons Seek much more More...Read the rest...
Categories: change, discrimination, home, hope,
Form: Blitz
Faraway Road
She stands at the window, Looking at the children in the meadow, Playing outdoors is a luxury, She’s saddled with drudgery. She feels the world has no place for her, And emancipation is only a blur, She wishes she could hide...Read the rest...
Categories: death, girl, home, hope,
Form: Quatrain
Spiffing Up
Replacing old things for so many’s a snap. An upgrade, to them, is a breeze; But I get bogged down in a kind of a trap - Any change brings me down to my knees. If it works, I...Read the rest...
Categories: home, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member DEED OF MOM AS MADAM
I heard the special child uttered his wow Midst yehey and yay gestures can allow Shouting love for Mom with zest Who does give dead level best… By her caring deed --- morning, noon or now. Dad can attest...Read the rest...
Categories: home, appreciation, blessing, christian, family,
Form: Limerick
Greens
Green, green, green, all greens Curtains, bedsheet, couch, pillows Motif of her room....Read the rest...
Categories: color, engagement, home, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Washing-line musings
I have inherited pleasure: the rhythm of pegs, the smell of buttery sun on sheets, a whispering murmur of trees standing around, and the company of magpies inspecting with one eye looking for worms....Read the rest...
Categories: home, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Squint to See
A portrait of a perfect house with flaken gold . An image by a renaissance man talant without a family. The inevitable imagination creates a story yet it could never picture a home, merely a tale. The shiny roof that...Read the rest...
Categories: endurance, home, space,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Home Poems

Read wonderful home poetry on the following sub-topics: away from, coming, daughter, farewell, funny, going, haiku, heart, home sweet, love, moving away, new, nursing, welcome and more.

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