Metaphor House Poems

SILENT HOMES

Silence 
            cloak of protection 
worn longing for
     ...

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The Devil's House

The house has lived for centuries, 
on grim and dismal ground. 
And when you've reached inside, 
the dust and demons come around. 

The...

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They gathered outside- I'm alone,
and at my back window, I groan!
I think- what is this
my hubby will miss?
Then, quickly I reach for my phone!

"We're being...

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Brick by brick, I built this home,
each piece with purpose, in which it owns.
It was the hardest task I ever did face,
As I made sure...

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Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my...

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Adorned in my sleepwear laying flat on my back on a mattress my vessel in a vessel my eyes open my mouth poised I say...

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I sit …

unusually still
car parked in the driveway 
engine off
home again, jiggity-jog
but I don’t reach for a handle
I soak a moment
in silent twilight, breathing
old leaves...

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Evict me from this grimy house
My son asked me what self-loathing is
His home still occupied with laughter
I was taken aback by his cleanliness
I told him...

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a bar door is ajar, only fading voices
echo into the void, from nowhere...and afar!

Here n there, trash drifts
ghosts in flickering neon. 

Broken, floating, bloated 
dead...

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I've been living in the house of cards
That I can almost know your move
Cause I've seen how the cards shuffle 
And how the games have...

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*** Directions to Our House ***


To find our house, you first go
Carefully down the towering show
Of those puffed cloud stairs
Touched by golden sun-glows.
Proceed to pass...

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Loss is like a broken window. 
In summer and spring, you do not notice it. 
It is just a fact; the window is broken; it...

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I build a house
with words poetic bricks...
Tile all with flourishes
and I paint it with poetry...
In the study room,
theorems,
in the room of love
only poems...
In front, I...

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Horrified at the harassment dpartment.
An alligator visited his apartment.
Alligator wanted to eat some flesh.
Morally and socially we are at stake.
You know Girlz date & black...

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When is a house, not a house
but a home, a place to call your own 
a box to fill with treasures 
of heart and objets...

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