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Renovating Poems - Poems about Renovating

Premium MemberThe Jungle Untamed

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       ' The Jungle Untamed calls me to exhibit its wonder and splendor to       
       mesmerise.'
          -Poet

               
     Jungle  untamed accommodates flora -fauna
     at ra...
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Categories: renovating, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membersharing

...pounding 
grinding 
drilling
sawdust
plumbing scraps
empty boxes 
strewn from 
bedroom to bathroom
and everywhere in between ...
a miner's shanty once
propped up 
on timbers with 
no firm...
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Categories: renovating, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberChapter 97 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Times and Projects

...Date: December  2042

Early afternoon, Damian was 
Busy in his den planning the trip 
To Trinidad. He called CJ first 
To confirm his commitment to
The project. "Hey brother you
Still on for t...
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Categories: renovating, absence, allusion, earth day,
Form: Alliteration

The Magic Window

...Upon renovating, I stumbled upon
A window that had been closed off
For years, it was a strange place
For a window to be positioned but
I felt compelled to expose it 
So, I torn the covering down...
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Categories: renovating, imagination, time,
Form: Free verse

Paint Job

...when it comes to renovating
I'm definitely slapdash
in fact it would be fair to say
that I can be rather rash

sanding bores me senseless
and it's a job I try to shirk
because I lack the patie...
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Categories: renovating, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberOne From the Dark Side of My Poetry

... "Nicholas Street Jail is a real place"

The building is imposing, massive and fearful,
built in 1862 as a jail and gallows for criminals;
the conditions were inhumane and appalling,
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Categories: renovating, dark, prison, scary,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberFor My Father

...Funny how faith found me, when you said you'd send for me

Abundance, I heard, abound  in the United States of America

Travel was in my blood; warmed my heart that you filed for me

Humbly I w...
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Categories: renovating, appreciation, dedication, father,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberNightmarish Shower

...Having a shower is relaxing, water gently falling,
Soothing your naked body, but I nearly went sprawling,
I was staying with Ricky and Robyn his wife,
When an incident the most embarrassing in my ...
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Categories: renovating, power,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Suitcase

...I nearly did not answer the door, for I did not recognize the man.
But my peek hole is pretty good. As he turned to leave I spotted Peggy’s suitcase.
I ran out there screaming for him to stop.

H...
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Categories: renovating, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberDistant Shores - the Final Chapter

...We drove in two separate cars a few miles along the ocean shore
I am not afraid, life has been depressing, I just don’t care anymore
We turn down a pebbled driveway, with lion statues guarding the ...
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Categories: renovating, betrayal, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Sand Crabs Lot In Life

...Grains of sand 
hiding small burrows;
every tiny sand crabs, the Emerita Analoga
needs its burrow.
intense sunlight’s warm but
has its dangers, even for a tiny crab’s skin.
xiphosura...
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Categories: renovating, animal, appreciation, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse

The Dear Retirement of a Beloved Pastor Part Ii

...I sigh through dear retirement of a beloved pastor.
Ah, zeal of crossroads drove an interconnected strand.
Oh,goodness, how my initiative has flustered.

If we communicated then we would have bon...
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Categories: renovating, addiction, immigration, longing,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberThe Haunted Jail

...The building is imposing, massive and fearful,
built in 1862 as a jail and gallows for criminals;
the conditions were inhumane and appalling,
on top floor was death row with only one way out.

I...
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Categories: renovating, scary,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberOld Shearing Shed Art Studio

...Larger than large, fostering the void, 
Rippled iron for the walls, roof and door,
Above six-foot legs reaching up from the dirt, 
To cradle the woollen greased floor,

With broken old memories ...
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Categories: renovating, art, freedom, places, work,
Form: Quatrain

Good and Bad News

...It’s a sad and sorry state to drive past every day,
the little Baptist Church I once attended every Sunday.
Weatherboards are flaking paint and spouting needs repair.
The Cross is leaning at an an...
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Categories: renovating, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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