Best Housing Poems
Below are the all-time best Housing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of housing poems written by PoetrySoup members
Escaping HumanityFeeling the desolation, of smothering air
Hemmed in by crowds; the obliqueness of fear
Throng of the city and no sight of the sun
Incessant noise and the...
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Categories:
housing, change, conflict, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
The Adventures of Jim the Trim - In An IsletJim, now rich, bought a wee li’l islet;
there he lived, with ten men and a starlet.
Changed his partner each day,
heaved and huffed till they say,
the...
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Categories:
housing, adventure, allusion, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
A Nook and a StorybookA nook in the corner, off to the right..
A haven, housing a hundred homes.
To there, where wakened dreams do hide,
My wandering mind so often...
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Categories:
housing, adventure, best friend, books,
Form:
Quatrain
Displaced In KathmanduOur dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its...
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Categories:
housing, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form:
Haibun
Do the Math
Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ...
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s...
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Categories:
housing, america, history, math, truth,
Form:
Narrative
The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...
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Categories:
housing, change, childhood, community, history,
Form:
Ballad
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My MemoirEach year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything,...
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Categories:
housing, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
My Aminus BrainI am of soft, delicate skinned casing,
Housing an iron, logical facing.
I grant my femininity free reign
To follow dictates of my manlike brain.
My seductive charms can...
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Categories:
housing, character, judgement, smart, strength,
Form:
Couplet
A Cocktail of Kaleidoscope(ALLITERATION)
Cows milked: mitigated mooing in the meadows then
Weaving on the warp, some workaholic women
Harvest of hapless halibuts on hooks
Bookish book-worms buried in books
A palomino and...
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Categories:
housing, imagery, poems, writing,
Form:
Alliteration
Winter HuesDrinking morning dews from grass; sun looks healthy,
Housing red yellow rays, sky looks lovely and pretty.
Mountain stands strong wearing deep green garment,
Within white Kans grasses,...
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Categories:
housing, seasons, winter,
Form:
Couplet
Our Lovely SkyWith stars & moon, lovely sky glows in night,
with marathon race of clouds, day is bright.
From scarlet sky...
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Categories:
housing, beautiful, nature, rain, sky,
Form:
Couplet
Call Me HomeYou are the river running through
unfathomable greens
glassy yellows
down in the core of the river
flicker lightness on top
You increase me…swell me…impregnate without word or...
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Categories:
housing, first love, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Dig DeepFrom the deep dark corners of my brain I strain to bring to the surface
the answers I've locked deep, so deep within...Like the matter inside...
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Categories:
housing, deep,
Form:
Free verse
ShadeYou speak as if you've read all the pages.
All knowing; bestow yourself this grace.
Beneath that serenity lies an abandoned cage.
Don't try to hide what's scrawled...
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Categories:
housing, analogy, beautiful, betrayal, break
Form:
Free verse
The Dying Red GiantIt stands alone
in a field of loneliness and neglect
the bright red paint has faded into a murky brown
a strict reminder from mother natures pounding fury...
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Categories:
housing, nature, places, sad, urbanloneliness,
Form:
Free verse