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Housetops Poems - Poems about Housetops


I Know

...I know,
I have always known
Exactly where I stand.
My will is His will, I rest in his hand.
And if the day of terror reaches my abode,
That portion of the ghetto
I've come to call home, 
And i...
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Categories: housetops, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSweet Breezes

...swept to the housetops
on fragrant breezes so fine
petals in the wind

hues flying springtime
when the world has come outside
cherry blossom rain

saffron clouds creeping
in warm sunshine of...
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Categories: housetops, beauty, flower, nature, tree,
Form: Haiku



Snow Soften

...I gazed toward the sky
In early morning, spreading
Out the window, light gathering
Seeing a tempest unfurl 
Amazed by whirlwinds 
The arrival of the snow
A snow fall so lovely

Dancing throug...
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Categories: housetops, snow,
Form: Free verse

Tranquillity

...It is snowing tonight!
How beautiful it is!
Everything is so lovely!
The first snow of the year!

I was all set for bed
when I decided 
to put out the light and
to look out the window

The fresh snow...
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Categories: housetops, beautiful, house, light, men,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRemembering When

...The Old Tree Fort

I remember when....

We looked upon a sea of brown-
roofed housetops where we knew the names
of families up the street and down...
We'd spy and laugh, with reckless ...
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Categories: housetops, childhood, children, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



En Garde

...There in the ghetto,
rising with the pain,
it is as if the one deprived of consciousness—
targeted by ignorance, ego at the helm,
was born to anger—
there, where raw emotion rules,
there the roots ar...
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Categories: housetops, war,
Form: Free verse

Muscular Love

...When the rage blows through
And biting leaves are sodom bent
When dark hands thrash from housetops sent
Rocking corners still know their ready course

Your love settles in good sense.
I am free amids...
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Categories: housetops, devotion, love, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse

Falling Snow

...See the pretty snowflakes
Falling from the sky;
On the wall and housetops
Soft and thick they lie.

On the window ledges,
On the branches bare;
Now how fast they gather,
Filling all the air.

Look in...
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Categories: housetops, seasons,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberRacing

...RACING

Along the housetops
Along the frozen ground
Racing!
                   Racing!
In the invisible air
In the invisible nothingness
Racing! 
                    Racing!
Along the pucke...
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Categories: housetops, nature
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMiracles

...Children watch the sky
As clouds go floating by
Wishing for; wanting snow
A day of blow wind blow

Quiet while the town sleeps
Soft flakes begin with no peep
Covering the trees and street
Hou...
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Categories: housetops, faith, fantasy, children, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

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