Best Home Poems
Below are the all-time best Home poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of home poems written by PoetrySoup members
Where The Sycamore GrewThe sun-yellow house seems smaller somehow,
as we look at it now, with time-worn eyes...
The street seems narrower, and the trees have grown..
and where once...
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Categories:
home, autumn, family, house, life, night, old,
Form:
Narrative
Disposable WisdomEach day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride...
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Categories:
home, age, cat, endurance, life, wisdom, world
Form:
Rhyme
Wind From The Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947
Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...
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Categories:
home, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope, love,
Form:
I do not know?
Broken~Suicidal Night~
I sit alone in the dark
In the dark I sit alone
Nobody sees me
I see nobody
Flowers, above
My eyes have darkened to a color never seen...
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Categories:
home, absence, death, emo, emotions, sorrow,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Black Diamond Night Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
home, body, death, history, lonely, night,
Form:
Epic
AT THE FOOTBRIDGE - LIMERICK COLLABORATIONAt the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his erection
For his love...
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Categories:
home, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
RapeOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
home, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Your Judas Like Tan""Child's Play""
You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise,
You scream bloody murder
-the perfect two face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with...
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Categories:
home, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter, deep, depression,
Form:
Dramatic monologue
Cup of EmptyCup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a...
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Categories:
home, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream, hurt, lost
Form:
Quatrain
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders FieldCourage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)
Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...
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Categories:
home, conflict, death, fate, sorrow, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
home, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing up, life,
Form:
Narrative
Umbrella*I Will Cry*
If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?
I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...
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Categories:
home, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form:
Dramatic monologue
Dreams of IndiaDreams of India
Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.
I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...
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Categories:
home, beauty, culture, desire, dream, hindi, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Letting Go"Letting Go!"
Behind that garden rail;
Where worms, squirm and roam,
They dig into every worst part of my day.
I feel them crawling, making my hide their home.
They...
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Categories:
home, depression, emotions, pain,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
I Wore Your Skin~I wore your skin~
Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy
Brother, I...
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Categories:
home, anger, bullying, dark, deep, discrimination, hurt,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
LeafFloating down with grace and ease
Carried off by the Autumn breeze
Rich in hues of orange and red
Landing in the flower bed
What once was buzzing full...
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Categories:
home, memory, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
As Flowers Crumble Collaboration with Silent OneLullabies through tear filled eyes
It's truly, love at first sight
The bond is forged and galvanized
To hold forever tight
Each time you needed a hand
She always had...
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Categories:
home, love, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
Military Tunic~Homeless~
A lost guardian angel, sitting on the edge of everything
I push my shopping cart along the cracks of destiny
My house sits on...
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Categories:
home, memorial day,
Form:
Free verse
Old manSilently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...
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Categories:
home, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
home, abuse, addiction, anger, body, boyfriend, bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count The Ways
1.
and every time i see you it is for the first time
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first
and...
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Categories:
home, love,
Form:
List
BIRTHBIRTH
Once upon a moonlit night
There came a ray of magic light
That shone upon an orphan home
Where two small pumpkins left alone
To thirst and starve to...
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Categories:
home, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
The Red Leaf
the raspy whisper
finally
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..
the crisp red leaf
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...
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Categories:
home, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,
I went home for lunch,
I never go home for lunch.
When I got to our apartment
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key.
Francine...
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Categories:
home, betrayal, break up, heartbroken, jealousy, lost
Form:
Dramatic monologue
if I had money
if I had all the money that I ever wanted,
...
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Categories:
home, drug, introspection, universe,
Form:
Narrative