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Roomed Poems - Poems about Roomed

Premium MemberMemories of My Neighborhood

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My “popcorn town”, Oak Bluffs
on Martha’s Vineyard,
always will be home to me
‘though I now live far away.
We were young when
we bought the old Victorian
with the wide wrap-around
porch. I...
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Categories: roomed, absence, friendship, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membergeneva

...During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith...
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Categories: roomed, boyfriend, humor, love, school,
Form: Free verse



The Stay

...She ran with all her might
To a place of safety, for the night
A shack, deep in the woods
Where no civility could
....ease....the stay

The closet held memory
Where he could free "me"
To play...
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Categories: roomed, truth, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChapter 119 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY: Damali Desharah DJ-- Desharah's and Sedanah's New Digs

...Desharah  woke early morning 8 am.
She wanted to check out her new
House. But she waited for Sedanah 
To come out of her dreams. 
"WAKE UP SEDA."  They roomed
Together. That's what her mother 
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Categories: roomed, absence, confidence, voyage,
Form: Alliteration

Do You Still Want To Go To the Psych Ward

...In the psych ward,
There are people who don't have homes, or parents, or friends.
In the psych ward,
There are patients who have no hope and feel they are worthless.
In the psych ward,
There are...
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Categories: roomed, anxiety, deep, depression, people,
Form: Free verse



Still Dithering With Hesitation On Brink of Abysmal Precipice I

...Infinite pitch black void zoomed,
I vacillated then pitched headlong
(head and knobby knees, over heels)
where skeletons in shuttered closets roomed,
and antithesis of freedom loomed
large (thin...
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Categories: roomed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Case of Possession Or Not

...She was possessed or so they imagined what else could it be  
only two years old and already she could speak fluent Spanish 
though she never heard the language in the household before; 
She cried...
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Categories: roomed, scary,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSmoke Alarm

...One in each bedroom. Where am I to sleep? 
Little listening devices, dot lime green light
Steadily gazing down at me all night
Surveillance recording my data to keep


Smoke alarms linking cons...
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Categories: roomed, anxiety, depression, fire, house,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberFree Verse Fever

...He came into my room carrying a gentle shade of light upon his face  
and as I grew accustomed to his presence, I felt his spirit free    
Its as if the angels carved him out of alabaster b...
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Categories: roomed, appreciation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMayor of the Snitchies

...There are red and green snitchies in my fingers,
They rapidly chase me down my wooden hall.
Delightedly twirl me I into a mass with their zingers,
Eleven can quickly roll me into a giant ball.

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Categories: roomed, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Friends

...Peter I knew since our childhood
though as a youth he wasn’t good,
but then Joan cured him of all that,
two babies in a two roomed flat.
 
Now Frank came later to my life,
by when, like him, I ...
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Categories: roomed, childhood, friendship, murder,
Form: Rhyme

Eastleigh

...I lose my fingers keeping count
the number of kids lost by murder count
in the eastern districts media houses dread
Patches of brown-black roofs on aerial view
Aunt hills of buildings single room...
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Categories: roomed, africa, slam, society,
Form: Free verse

Like Deja Vu

...Early in the morning , she passed by me
My heart despondent with her allure smile,
She is naturally dismayed 
A doddering newspaper on the floor captures her distinct eyes,
For a few seconds , li...
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Categories: roomed, absence, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse

I Grew Up In a One Roomed Shack

...I grew up in a one roomed shack
a king size Coca-Cola space
crammed like Marlboro cigars in a pack
a place I ran to for defense
my home which some see as a plight
where my family had to find the...
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Categories: roomed, memory,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberOld Wooden Boxes

...I collect old wooden boxes,
From anywhere that I can.
I collect them from garage sales and,
From the handyman.

From the local dump or old backyards,
Or clearance sales on a farm,
They’ve all ...
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Categories: roomed, old,
Form: Quatrain

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