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Upstairs Poems - Poems about Upstairs

Upstairs Poems - Examples of all types of poems about upstairs to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for upstairs.
The Basement
...I continue staring at the wall. If spiders started spilling out of that crack. I don’t think I’d move. My mom thinks I’m weird. I hadn’t spoken for hours but there’s still echoes down here. I co......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member After After
...With remnants of mankind’s existence corroding His lighting extinguished, his concrete eroding The birds and the beasts have reconquered his space Those same birds and beasts have forgotten his fa......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Captive
...I am a captive of these household chores, Cleaning windows, wall and floors. Fighting dirt all the way, Until I am old and grey. Up at 5 to start the sandwich brigade. Pack their lunches and ......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living Surreality One Night in Oregon
... It’s getting late and I can’t wait to sleep. Insomnia always has hold of me at bedtime. Tonight I feel hopeful of a visit from the sandman! My adult son and his buddies are drinking and playing......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Spinning Top
... Panther calling Kestrel-- over No response Panther calling Kestrel-- over No response Panther calling Kestrel, time is critical--over No response Kestrel calling Panther, break in comms, big ......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, conflict, confusion, death, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Changed: imploded broken vanished summonedreturned
...New new new Clean clear powerful activity, unleashed wings upstairs Protective instinct bonded to stability Monitor on, guarding, titrating all sensory and physical input Past seeking, obsessing ......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, beautiful, birth, change, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Veiled
..."Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one, she washed herself from a watered pail, she claimed their lies an......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, allusion, analogy, evil, father
Form: Narrative
Premium Member All Of Us
...a tomb you say domed and grand and cherubin temerity a mass grave of all of us but who still creeps around upstairs ......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, dark, death, fear, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Brazen Vixens
...We used to have a wonderful crew at work. Sixteen, men who thought alike. Then someone upstairs decided to hire two female engineers. They hired the wrong two. These interlopers are not demure,......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member When opposites collide
...I live in a small condo with a unit upstairs, and there resides one very temperamental bear.. He has a darling wife, so bubbly and fair, but he can be so dark and moody, spreads his gloom ever......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member DEAR LIFE
...Just a little note Spoken words Living proof Surviving is never easy Yet I always survive Enriching advice I wonder how, when and breakthrough Struggles comes Challenges speak for themselves ......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, anxiety, blessing, care, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter 152-- same day--DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: The reception and These Hawaiian Daze
...Date: April 2051 Wondrous water ways Hawaiian Daze And Daze and Daze. The Hakim Family wondered how long their Stay would endure as their return Home was inevitable. Now as the Ceremony e......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, allusion, birth,
Form: Alliteration
Peppers and Eggs
...Jodie Foster is frying peppers and eggs ~ it is late and her legs ache as she scrambles the yokes, sautés jalapenos. Today a jerk again compared her to the movie star ~a life she never wanted keep......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midnight Shipping
...In company of memories, and moonlight, where nothing more, than a distant snore, rumbles, from your heart, upstairs underscoring my thoughts, as they meander th......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, imagery, introspection, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Divorced
...Divorced She was smiling A small victory Would he be contesting the house No The cars No Half the savings No You’re agreeing with everything Yes I must say, that is v......Read the rest...
Categories: upstairs, divorce, humorous, woman,
Form: Free verse

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