Best Housebound Poems

People once said I was a homebody, and I guess that was me,
Often curled up with a good book, I loved watching movies.

Like blooms of...

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H0USEBOUND

my god! i‘m housebound
another sip of coffee
outside?      Imagine 
it’s fourteen below zero
I’m tiptoeing through the snow

squirrels are watching me
birds with...

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Wild birds our sages;
         we be trapped in cages.
How sweet the outside sound
for larks that are housebound.
We...

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Spring struggles to break winters hold
on its timely season onset.
The latent buds are reluctant
to sprout their protuberances;
robins haw vocal notes of song
while perched on stark...

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Why is it so hard to be happy
But so easy to be sad?
When I see how people treat each other
Sometimes it makes me so mad

It...

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Angrily, rain enfolds the insular rise of lawn undulating. 
Anglers dream, envious fishermen, inside looking out urging 

apostles, who elope within imaginary onslaughts, hooked unburdening's.
Aloft,...

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From days start till end
Loud housebound kids cause concern
Your dreams undisturbed...

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what's different about my days? not a walk in the park
but a gallop around the block, grand
boys in tow, towing me. picking me
wildflowers. we have...

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What will they do now, I am a very ill old cat,

I am Much loved, part of the family, so proud,

Gone off my food, lost...

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I remember the snows of my childhood
Bringing beauty beyond compare
And also how hard it was to breathe in
Mouthfuls of that cold frigid air.

Galoshes and scarves...

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Imagine you’re a woman, with a mind
as trained, acute and fertile as exists.
Imagine that your erudite, refined
creations top each year’s best-seller lists.

You write in English,...

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I fell back into the spaces among the living,
for the dead held no place for me.
I do not wish for death,
although I walk between the...

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Imagine you’re a woman, with a mind
as trained, acute and fertile as exists.
Imagine that your erudite, refined
creations top each year’s best-seller...

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I got drunk on your love
You made me
feel a little giddy
laugh
and act a little silly
I could hardly walk
and I stammered when I did talk
I fell...

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Violette Poem-Nature’s Design

Some folks like cold weather.
Want the warm air, never.
Could have snow forever.
Wintertime kind.

A snowstorm is outside,
covering countrywide.
Go have a fun sleigh ride.
Oh no,...

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