Best Neighborhood Poems
Below are the all-time best Neighborhood poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of neighborhood poems written by PoetrySoup members
Broken PeopleI wish to be with the broken people
the get in your face challenge me people
The sometimes hidden
sitting in a dark corner kinda people
The don't you...
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Categories:
neighborhood, people,
Form:
Free verse
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
neighborhood, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
The Missionary and the BumThere once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...
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Categories:
neighborhood, faith, friendship, love,
Form:
Prose
A Face Like Thunder POTDI was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.
Studying the said effects on...
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Categories:
neighborhood, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Heroes
Heroes
When need arises they rise up in every town
No matter the toll it takes, they just carry on,
But not everyone will recognize who they are
For...
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Categories:
neighborhood, hero,
Form:
Verse
Making FriendsI walked out to a cottonwood
Who lives out in the hay
And since he had no livelihood
Decided I would stay
A root of his became my chair
He...
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Categories:
neighborhood, friend, tree,
Form:
Personification
QuirksSome people frankly write about their quirks.
If I had any, I would tell you so.
Though no outlandish trait within me lurks,
some folks think I’m a...
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Categories:
neighborhood, relationship, repetition,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Through a Child's Eyesfinding shapes in clouds
or four-leaf clovers in fields . . .
the child’s eye searches
What does it mean to view life through a child’s eyes? For...
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Categories:
neighborhood, child,
Form:
Haibun
This Buds For You-This buds for you!-
-It takes one to know one!-
-I know you are, but what am I?-
A second hand, on my stopwatch, going nowhere!
You are a...
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Categories:
neighborhood, abuse, addiction, anger, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Time MachineRide with me on my time machine to a different time and place
Return with me and let me see if I can put a smile...
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Categories:
neighborhood, nostalgiamom, me, night, candy,
Form:
Couplet
Guess Who~It's a Beautiful Day~
Under every star,
A smile waltz-like no other
Once a simple cherry blossom girl,
enjoying puppets and lullabies.
Sitting in front of the screen
Anxiously...
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Categories:
neighborhood, appreciation, celebrity, child, environment,
Form:
Free verse
A Friendly GoodbyePoem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano
he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes
that...
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Categories:
neighborhood, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
The Lady Down the LaneOn my walk around the green meadow
in the sun splattered mesmeric mornings,
I used to see an old lady of the neighborhood,
sitting straight like a lone...
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Categories:
neighborhood, memory, old, remember,
Form:
Free verse
SunjoyEarly morning. I stood on my porch slowly sipping a cup of tea while watching the sun rise over my neighborhood. The sunshine brings a...
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Categories:
neighborhood, inspiration, sun,
Form:
Haibun
Snowflake MusingsThe dawn comes with a musical silence. The air is frozen lace on my skin, delicate and cold, like winter waves on sallow sand....
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Categories:
neighborhood, introspection, perspective, snow, weather,
Form:
Haibun