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Lodgers Poems - Poems about Lodgers

Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
...A Place Not Meant To Be PART: II (699 of 1487 words) #9: Days of Paper Roses Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives! Then everything, be as close enough, still,......

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Categories: lodgers, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: 10
...#10: No Room At The Inn They blossomed they did like rows of roses. Places for lodgers, those traveling sourced, their reasons countered their changing poses, frequent stays and ret......

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Categories: lodgers, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



How Does the Soul Enter Heaven
...The soul leaves its chamber, It goes on a voyage, An eternal mileage, The body is in an endless slumber. The soul travels on a lone road, Free from the earth's load, Dazzling lights are seen ......

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Categories: lodgers, heaven, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vacation In Taiwan
...My most favorite vacation ever was in Taiwan, That was in October 2019, not in year 1991. I’d humorous experience with my four friends, On arrival day and travelling by bus and train. The momen......

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Categories: lodgers, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Acorns and Oaks
...Coffin dodgers and nursing home lodgers, wrinklies, pensioners and plain old codgers. A drain on society, archaic models of piety, bed blockers, youth knockers, paragons of sobriety. But is all......

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Categories: lodgers, age, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme



Kajal Ahmad Translations Kurdish
...Mirror by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet loose translation by Michael R. Burch My era's obscuring mirror shattered because it magnified the small and made the great seem insignificant. Dictator......

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Categories: lodgers, arabic, bird, conflict, earth,
Form: Free verse
Let Me Give Her Diamonds
...Let Me Give Her Diamonds by Michael R. Burch Let me give her diamonds for my heart's sharp edges. Let me give her roses for my soul's thorn. Let me give her solace for my words of tre......

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Categories: lodgers, valentines day,
Form: Verse
Lodger In My Heart
...Lodger in my heart I found rather strange people in my heart, among those closest to me, hiding and peking true white cels of my blood, stiling all those red one! Then I thought to myself, ......

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Categories: lodgers, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covered Dishes Part 3
...Your sullen muted whispers, wafting in this dank whiskey inn, are falling on wide-open ears, except, your mousey annoying voice lacerates my brain with claws that rip and tear and impale, yet,......

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Categories: lodgers, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Grist Mill Inn
...When you are rich you can do what you please Building and naming stuff what you may. So when Ford decided to build his own church he named it Martha-Mary chapel one day In 1923, he purchased 3,......

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Categories: lodgers, america, appreciation, environment, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Road To Miss Weatherbys
...When I was young, eight years at most, I pedalled to Miss Weatherby's house... down the street, past salty old codgers cheating at checkers, past Dad's bakery, around the bend to duck ponds wit......

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Categories: lodgers, childhood, fun, growing up,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Painted Desert
...Mornings fade into evenings, evenings slip into nights. Day colors spill from their pails, then seep into valleys, wind caves and shale. The Painted Desert bleeds into a Stygian hue as the heat......

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Categories: lodgers, beauty, native american, nature,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
... by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day first comes the time too fretful on your hands next the boredom of not knowing what to do with it all th......

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Categories: lodgers, age, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse
Might These Be
...Might this be a wonder, Might this be a sunder, Might this be the blocker, Might this be the warder, Might there be a plunder, Might it pass the border, Might there be a dweller, Might they be lodger......

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Categories: lodgers, art, confusion, life, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lunchtime At the Nursing Home
...Hungry for munchies, on his way to the lunchroom, a rambunctious, persnickety,“fuss-budget”, elderly jittery, fidgety, geezer, named Cassidy… whose questionable dexterity, aghast by a massive sneeze......

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Categories: lodgers, funny, people, old, old,
Form: Narrative

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