Floorboards Poems - Poems about Floorboards

...er-life, blood filing into uncomfortable shoes The reality sets in on what is proceeding No reversal nor stopping the floorboards from seeping Falling through the gaps of the basements’ ceiling Staining the memories, left for revealing ......Read More

...no longer talking I slip onto... uneven surfaces I slip on waxed floors on partially open doors I slip on loose floorboards Rugs especially on stairs I slip On potholes in parking lots I slip I slip on liquids that'd never mo......Read More

...ncedes whispers of dust calm quest of quarters, ~~views endured through time. Some non-existent floorboards chanced ferns sprouting rights, roots by an unnerved staircase, challenging few, yon a blurr......Read More

...ddled by fragmenting noon beacons ~~grandmas curtain hangs chairs rock as handheld fan waves midst squeaking floorboards ~~iced tea drinks glisten 2020 June 23 *3rd Place* Summer Haiku's ~~Tania Kitchin......Read More

...ung from the black beams on all the ceilings. As I wandered through the empty rooms my footsteps echoed on the old pine floorboards which were littered with strips of wallpaper falling from the damp walls. My heart sank when I saw how much ......Read More

...manity’s most atrocious years The Holocaust, Ann Frank, attacks on the disabled, the old Hiding under wallboards and floorboards, in attics, in the woods, Sent to Concentration camps, Russian work camps, to death in Siberian Ice Mande......Read More

...My foot falls onto floorboards Footfalls on the floor of my new home. In its largest chamber, I settle down Setting up beddi......Read More

...e had not saved him. He wished it was true, but the heart does not lie And the heart was already wailing Beneath the floorboards ......Read More

...e, now hoping, it’s what the message meant I got a hammer and saw and the cats sharpened their claws I set upon the floorboards praying, it was all in a just cause The cats set upon the mattress, with, a vigour never known And not t......Read More

...And you have this uncontained flaw To escape a space that resumes? Suddenly you are captured against the walls and floorboards become a perpetual Walkway lining the main hall, Where forever is no longer conceptual. Bound by echo’s......Read More

...n moss, some have come loose and are ready to slide, scavengers came through here long, long ago, there’s just moldy floorboards decaying inside. I look at it all rising from the tall grass killed by winter, it still stands in place,......Read More

...my arms my three fair faraway daughters, who are heading home this Xmas season. My house so quiet without them, the floorboards creek night tears. It too will be happy. 04/12/2019 For William Kekaula's contest A Red-Letter D......Read More

...e someone there ? a pause expectant of reply listening as the sound bounces and breaks stranding me in the silence Floorboards give a gentle rasp as my sight fumbles in the shadows does the dark look back......Read More

...life, where one is betrothed to bitter lament. Memories gather dust in closet door, fears scurry fast on cranium floorboards. Do not deceive me now in time of need, despite knowledge that you are but legend. Hopeless fantasy ple......Read More

...Areas that are neat And others with garbage in a heap Didn't make a peep Skillfully able to sneak In a house with floorboards that creak By being discrete By themselves or with a fleet If they want to go, then it'll be their retr......Read More