Best Homesite Poems
The Beat Goes OnGrandma was German raised to value beauty,
her art found in nature the flowers and the trees.
Grandpa, a Wentworth, from an English family
whose Great Grand sailed the Mayflower, across the sea.
In the time of William Morris, when craft was art,
Great Granddad was a shipwright that's...
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Categories:
homesite, life, nostalgia, on work
Form:
Quatrain
CemeteryI moved away after high school at the age of 17.
I returned to visit several times and actually, after 7
years, returned with my newly formed family for a 4-year stay.
Moreover, I now feel bad about the fact that I moved 2000
miles away and for...
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Categories:
homesite, history, home, time,
Form:
Narrative
The Parking Lot Duck-Head-Another True Tom TaleI live in a trailer park in upstate N.Y.
proud, dumb white trailer trash I is
don't really know well my neighbors
to me that is just as well
you'll understand far better when
you hear the tale I'll tell
across from my small single trailer
looms a large expensive double
but the...
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Categories:
homesite, funny, mystery, people, me,
Form:
Burlesque
The Terror of Tootsie TownIn the age old refrigerator
A huge Tootsie Roll did reign
All the fruits and vegetables
Thought he was most insane
Too sweet, too dark, too strong
as all the other food could see
And though he knew that it was wrong
He beat up a poor old onion
Till everyone did cry
Was...
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Categories:
homesite, adventure, allegory, funny, old,
Form:
Ballad
Not a TraceEven the most familiar surroundings were unrecognized
A most fathomless affair; the search for yesterday
The Old Library and playground were also gone
The Chinaberry tree, a landmark, was gone
A most strange emotion hovered over me,
And every trace of the homesite was gone
100722PSCtest, Bite...
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Categories:
homesite, home,
Form:
Verse