Closet Poems - Poems about Closet

...with scant regret. Ropes both for hanging and climbing, good grief, bad love, honey-do-dew in a salty brew. In my closet, pockets unpacking pockets, string bags under closed eyes, eulogies for the living etched on wet lips and kit......Read More

...ritual can awaken a dying spirit Life is what you see through your own eyes, so grab that positive persona from the closet And put on your reflection instead of that gloomy frown Easier said than done But just take one step at......Read More

... and fold the shirts and the sheets, match up the socks with their mates returning them to their proper places in the closet and the drawers of the dresser upon which my clock rests I realize its tick-tock has stopped so I wind it once ......Read More

...She supped a tarry tea from a Serbian samovar. We shared a toilet with a slim man who was slinky and still in the closet, he would saucily wink over strong drink. His lips were rosy not pink. He washed argyle socks in the kitchen s......Read More

...colors and shapes of the urn And to mention the pretty dresses she’d never worn We found hanging by the dozens in her closet We wanted to say something about the general agony She lived within The sleeves of her entire life But pull......Read More

...try desperately to remain serene Knowing after that door is closed Your news delivered She will stare into a dark closet for hours Wishing she could protect her baby from the monsters out here as easily as the ones in there.......Read More

...one that glows steady. Step 12: I bask in the glow of the new light without the fear of the darkness I outran. The closet monsters can't touch me now. No darkness is more frightening than my own, and deals have already been made. ......Read More

...an opportunity To finally move them out of the house In our son's room we hung a poster of AOC In our daughter's closet lurks a robot mouse When they finally left, we breathed a sigh of relief Until we looked each other right ......Read More

... ** This is only about my hall closet. His gigantic sisters and brothers are in other rooms.** A plethora of aged but lovely shoes and slipper......Read More

...em until they crackled into a conflagration Beside me sat the box I’d hidden away in the corner of the shelf in my closet under piles of sheets and pillow cases Within it stored what he’d worn that arid August day we’d met like tri......Read More

...m all the tears you cry. They don’t mind the water, though. They just want you to feel alright. The demons in your closet want you to know they aren’t the same as the ones in your head. Everyone around the office hates those guys. ......Read More

...of shunning my beloved Mom To realize my placement problem has less to do with choosing to hide in my out of place closet, and everything to do with unquestioned dogmatic homophobia carrying on in the family room.......Read More

...see me covered in vomit For he might believe he never really had a hand He will never see the pain as I hide in my closet......Read More

...can’t be real How long will this nightmare last? But you refuse to see Things are just as they seem That man in the closet The skeleton and his locket Hanging by his neck On a rope made of intestines His body hanging limp Within th......Read More

...sneeze. Or inside the house, oh please not beside the couch! or under a table, so I'll have to crouch! I open the closet expecting to jump, not there either, but I spy a big lump sitting in his "couch potato" chair; yep, that's whe......Read More