A removal van drove to the white house
They couldn't get in and nor could a mouse
Because Donald had the gall
To build a twenty foot wall
To avoid conceding, he had the nous...
You've broken the law said a high court judge
But still Donald was refusing to budge
It was getting past a joke
So under clouds of thick smoke
A seal team went in to give him a nudge...
Written 20th November 2020.
For Out On a Lim Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May.
Categories:
eviction, humor,
Form: Limerick
I've lived in your heart for three years.
My payments were always before time.
If I made too much noise I assure you I didn't know.
My foot steps are often loud, the neighbor beside me keeps his music up.
I never filed a complaint.
Accepting things as they are.
Outside of that nothing seemed to be wrong.
The conditions weren't bad at first.
Everything worked.
The sink clogged a bit.The locks need to be replaced.
The things of which I done myself.
I felt home here in my one bedroom.
Not too much company so no need for much furniture.
There were nights I couldn't feed myself,
making sure your demands were met.
Differences between needs and wants.
Still I received note after note about noise among other things.
Things accused of though disputed.
You smiled in my face and told me all was forgiven.
To receive a note of eviction.
The neighbors music still loud.
My landlord unable to be found.
Someone new moving into my place
Categories:
eviction, black african american, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Love
The heart
Invaded,
Evicted is
Hate!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
10 August 2017
Categories:
eviction, hate, life, love,
Form: Lanterne
Nature welcomed Man into her mansion and he started evicting the old tenants!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
05 December 2016
*The total number of species facing extinction according to IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species is 15 589. These include 1 in three amphibians, half of freshwater turtles, 1 in 8 birds and 1 in 4 mammals.
Categories:
eviction, animal, planet, pollution,
Form: Monoku
Malicious, plotting squirrel,
sends its angry rain.
Oh, the liberties it takes,
with my precious fruit trees.
A pear slams into my head;
my temple, burning blue.
Rising lump of blue,
from vicious squirrel;
swelling on my head
from his violent pear-rain.
Standing beneath the pear tree,
I do a double-take.
Squirrel always takes;
gives nothing; leaving me so blue.
Into the top of my pear tree,
moved the squirrel;
flinging his pear-rain,
hard upon my head.
The growing lump, smarts on my head.
Whatever it takes,
I’ll end this horror rain;
I’ll make squirrel
so very, very blue.
I will dine on pears from my own trees!
They are my trees!
Stop hitting my head.
How dare you, squirrel!
You must not take
all and beat me black and blue,
with your violent pear-rain.
Your angry, rabid rain,
Of pears from my tree,
built a gigantic lump of blue,
upon my tender head.
I’ll do whatever it takes
to evict you, Mr. squirrel!
No more, pelting pear rain; beneath sky of blue.
You’ll leave my trees, whatever it takes!
No more glaring lumps, upon my head;
your notice, has been served, Mr. Squirrel.
Categories:
eviction, animal, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Sestina
I’m giving you two weeks’ notice
And then I’m evicting you
From my heart
You haven’t been paying your dues…
Lingering caresses
Entwining embraces
Passion laden kisses
And loving whispers
Are overdue
LONG overdue
What’s worse…
You’ve been trashing the premises
With your careless words
dirty excuses
filthy put-downs...
Your childish tantrums
And misplaced anger
Have littered my heart
You have been bringing in
Uninvited guests
To share the night
Thinking I was unaware
Of the trysts
But this place is meant for you
YOU
Alone
There has been too much
Way too much
Wear and tear
And so I declare
You are being evicted
Pack up your things
And find another
Heart
to live in!
I need some time
To set things right
To make repairs...
The love paint needs to dry
The dream frames need to be hung
The soiled sheets need to be purified
I need to sew new curtains of hope
And wash away the grime from the
windows of my heart
Before I can even consider
Taking in a new resident.
Two weeks…..
Just enough time
For you to pay for damages
And then to leave
Peacefully...
Before I have you thrown out
of this heart of mine!
Categories:
eviction, allegory, relationship,
Form: Free verse
She fastens the safety pin
on her baggy sweater
cold aged hands
turn the wheelchair towards
the broken down tenement
which had been her home
for the past fifteen years
In her pocket is the pink
crumpled eviction notice
that some unfeeling
developer with a billfold
of cash and a heart full
of greed handed to her
and others less fortunate
Furniture of friends lies
piled high on the street
awaiting the Salvation Army
van to take it away
such irony that they take
away what that once gave
to the needy
Snowflakes begin to fall
leaving wet spots in her lap as
a cruel wind blows her
salt and pepper hair
turning she takes a last look
at her decaying building and wheels herself down
the broken sidewalk to the soup kitchen
Categories:
eviction, sad
Form: I do not know?
You're being evicted. Get out do it without delay. Oh yes, I got kicked out my
apartment in the cold month of February. Now all my money is spent, paying last
month's rent.
Working on commission is hard you see.Returns, returns and more returns.How
can I earn when the customers continue to return.So this is why I struggle to pay
my rent.
Now I'm living with my cousin and I spent much of my time fussing,about the
strange things that go on in the night.I'm really stressed having no one to turn to.I
fight to pray but I'm left with no words to say. So my spirit man intercedes for me.
I get up in the morning with a tired and achy body,due to sleeping on the hard
floor.This the second time this situation has happened to me.
I continue to work on commission. Keeping my eyes open for better job
opportunies. Chicago was a possibility, but I needed to move,moving
money.Moving from place to place.
Shut the door to the secret things you used to do when no one was around.That
would bring frowns to the people's faces if they would of caught you doing what
you do.
Shut the door . Now you're mature.
Categories:
eviction, on writing and words,
Form: Light Verse
With his thick, brown, hairy legs,
He had climbed the back of an old white barn.
As his knotted, broad chest pressed
Against the dry-rotted boards,
He stretched his arms toward the sun
Piercing through some nearby branches.
Entangling his long fingers in those limbs,
He rested his head on the black shingled roof
Until his head became green and bushy.
His body clave to the building when he saw me.
He clinched when I tried to grab him
And he did not want to come down.
So, I cut him off by his hairy feet
From among his crawling children,
And I pulled and pulled him by the legs.
Though he fought to stay and kicked to return,
I tore him away from that old white barn
And down he came with boards and branches.
I laid him on top of a pile of old ivy vines
And scraped his remains off the building.
Categories:
eviction, adventure, family, husband, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Down whiskey for brain alteration
Inhale potent smoke to open cognitive Inspiration
Id is now truly bent
Body is demanding its overdue occupancy
Rent
Sick and wondering why the tenant is so Unkind
Taut rope is twisted to maximum
Now it needs to unwind
Let loose spinning wildly out of control
Dizziness causes vision to blur
Careful, cant do much with broken arms
Messed up beyond belief
In the eye of the inebriated storm
There is still no relief
Categories:
eviction, allegory, confusion,
Form: Verse
Eviction known awaits
Body, mind, spirt, and soul
Believe in GOD
Categories:
eviction, faith, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Haiku