Best Housebound Poems

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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Gotta get out and enjoy the outside
Housebound am I like I've curled up and died
Need interaction
Is this overreaction
Is it just me or am I on...

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He lies beneath the knife today,
his sweet old heart growing weaker.
It has made him sad and housebound,
no longer the merry, cheery seeker.

He is everything in...

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              Wild birds our sages;
       ...

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The weather became bitter cold today
And housebound I will stay
I went out to try and start the car
It's winter's coldest day by far.

Colder than the...

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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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I let the day slip away
  unmarked time in my older years at play.
Gray cast single clouded sky
  reaped restless winds their chill...

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Domestic Landscape


There used to be many small farms or homesteads around
Here where I live, they are abandoned now,
Except for some wretched relics unable to move,...

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snow storm
whirling, twirling
a few snowflakes at first,
she starts out so unassuming,
within an hour, snow is on the ground.
school is cancelled, children laugh
snow plow activity
housebound, hot...

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Whit wet Vetted Splendour...

Pervaded mounded jeweled ground
gunmetal sky incessantly
pelted and did pound
asper staccato round

arhythmic, emphatic, melodic sound
to this clown,
who felt housebound
as precipitation reigned down.

steady rain...

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Cold steady April rain
Housebound huddled captive
Grey and somber is the day
And like myself inactive
So I sit composing verse
Forcing words, imposing, terse
To conjure feelings so inscribed
Pointing...

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When she moves, one foot turns inwards,
Because the ankle is weak,
And won't go forwards,
It is as though it flinches
From a shoe that pinches,
But the ankle...

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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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