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Latchkey Poems - Poems about Latchkey

Latchkey Poems - Examples of all types of poems about latchkey to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for latchkey.
Premium Member DAWN OF QUICK PURSUIT
...Tis brisk, this love, that rounds her abs with haste. With dawn of quick pursuit, she trembles light. His eyes, they stroke the lamb, her wooly-chaste. Her long locks, bind, grab hold the sun, exc......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, lost love, lust,
Form: Sonnet



Gen X 1965-1980
... Gen X or the MTV generation. See a big growth in the Dept. of education. A generation of latchkey Kids home alone. Rocky hits the box office, With Sylvester Stallone.......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, childhood, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Visitor
...A woman left for work. Her child went to school. A latchkey kid, her daughter that day got straight home from school, aware of every rule to not let strangers in no matter what. A neighbor said......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, daughter,
Form: Sonnet
A Definite Bonehead Moment
...A definite bonehead moment since revised when das scribe made laughing stock of himself (circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem December twenty eighth, 2022). A retrospective account revisited court......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Morning Breeze
...There's cobalt clouds across the sun A nice cool breeze moves the oak tree Somewhere on earth, someone buys a gun All the while, the sun shines with glee Jesus loves all Though some......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, america, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Muse Came In a Storm
... ~ ~ ~ ~ Looking up I was so awestruck, suddenly my muse was unstuck; oh windstorm_ I saw a huge flock of bluebirds, singing a song so long unheard; oh rainstorm_ I got ou......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, muse,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Freedom, Feigned
...Confinement - I carry my prison with me no bounds or bars or barriers can equal the breadth of my bondage its burning poison possesses marrow and mind squeezing the emotion......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, freedom, introspection, truth, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
A Lotus Scrawled Fiat
...Mandated this faux gremlin explorer (alias Cliff Ford) donning reinforced rubber baby buggy bumpers to dodge any errant wild jaguar, ram, thunder bird, bee in blue bonnet hood lamb, et cetera ......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dogs Bark
...She stands at the barbed-wire fence Her chest heaves up and down Her picture is taken ~ dogs bark They are ferocious The gate in the middle creaks open admitting her It slams shut be......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, anxiety, dog, future, kindergarten,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Hand of God
...HAND OF GOD The deluge came like splattered tears, palm’s held out to see if it was real. Hemlines lifted as feet kicked against the water. The scourge of cold could be felt on thei......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, christian, sin,
Form: Free verse
The Altar
...A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, and clamours of construction mutter, bellow and insinuate, his broken voice belies an old man struggling with a stutter. He comes and goes in dead of ni......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, bereavement,
Form: Verse
The Altar
...A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, and clamours of construction mutter, bellow and insinuate, his broken voice belies an old man struggling with a stutter. He comes and goes in dead of ni......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, writing,
Form: Verse
The Altar
......inspired by the performance piece 'What's He Building In There?' by Tom Waits A green glow dribbles 'neath his door, and clamors of construction mutter, bellow and insinuate, his broke......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, spiritual,
Form: Verse
All the World's a Stage
...All The World’s A Stage In the lives of each other We play many parts With a very long scene until the end Composed of Acts as time allows Act I finds Infants in a vunerable state Nursed a......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, anger,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Brooding Rooted
...I sit and watch. Changes come so slowly. So, vigilance is required, an attentiveness to minutia. There are layers of wardings erected between the watch and I. Thoughts, which f......Read the rest...
Categories: latchkey, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse

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