Best Placeshouse Poems


In This House

IN THIS HOUSE ,
IS SO QUITE 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
IT IS SO COLD 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
I AM ALONE 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
IT IS HARD 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
IT IS JUST SCARY 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
JUST WISH YOU WAS HERE 

IN THIS HOUSE , 
IT ANT LIKE IT USE TO BE 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
IT JUST ANT THE SAME 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
IS SO DEPRESSING 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
IT IS SO SAD 

IN THIS HOUSE 
THERE ANT NO LAUGHTER 

IN THIS HOUSE ,
THERE ANT NO EXCITMENT

Moving Day

Musty boxes
Resting belligerently in forgotten corners
Gathering dust
Waiting to be dissected
Eviscerated
Purged of their jumbled bits and bobs
The oddments of a family of lives
Muscled arms heft them in a tanned sweaty embrace
A bumping scuffling journey ensues
The same arms gently relinquish their burden
Deposit them again on a cold tiled floor
A new house 
Opened again at last after months of lonely brooding
A gloomy blossom it has finally bloomed
Throwing wide its cavernous embrace to four strangers
A motley crew of hopes and dreams and striving passions
How loud their voices
How bright their darting smiles
Bare feet thunder on wooden stairs
Doors creak on rusted hinges
Two fleeting youths stampede through stale chambers
Exploring
Examining
Acclimating to this shadowy skeleton of whitewashed brick
Moldering roof tiles
Terraced garden littered with brittle husks of summer leaves
The children race and dart from room to room
Filling them with their strident cries
The house shifts and groans under this sudden onslaught
Unaccustomed to such boisterous unapologetic life
But as night falls and darkness draws near
Weathered bricks hunker down with contented sighs
No more will the house be a forgotten shell
Home to naught but shadows and scuttling roaches
Now at last life has returned
It has a purpose once more
And having a purpose is all that anything
Even a house
Could ever want

My Bewitching House

My bewitching house in the glen    
The sun shines brightly there             
The wind gently whisper                     
The birds sweetly sing                      
The sun shines brightly there    
The roses bloom fully             
The birds sweetly sing    
The gentle grass dances   
The roses bloom fully     
The wind gently whispers    
The gentle grass dances     
My bewitching house in the glen


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