Roommates Poems - Poems about Roommates

...I had lunch with Randy, between classes today. It was a perfect day. The sky was an infinite, capri blue, the wind was stirring the environment, clouds were wispy and on high - in the fast lane where......Read the rest...

...Everything’s been frantic since the break. What people don’t tell you about college, is that you’re just tired ALL of the time. I’m so tired, yawn ‘scuse me. So if you’re planning to talk ......Read the rest...

...It’s monsoon season here in New Haven, gone, are the banked, fluorescent colors of sunset. This feeling hit me, like a rogue wave. “We have to go out tonight,” I announced, to no one in particul......Read the rest...

...(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives) I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday). I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if......Read the rest...

...(a story in senryu stanzas) I get migraines. - lucky me - glare can set me off within seconds. I always have a pair of dark, polarized shades with me - it’s a quirk. When I was fourteen,......Read the rest...

...it’s too wet, too gloomy, too damp putting me in a bad mood, I am too annoyed to write I wanted to picnic today this storm has ruined everything! Dang it! Now the lights have gone out! Even if ......Read the rest...

...It’s a chill and rainy Saturday night in New Haven - it’s Superbowl eve! My roommates Leong, Anna and Lisa and I were playing a game of Upwards - it’s a scrabble-like word game and we’re all strangel......Read the rest...

...We’re (my roommates and I) at a specific time of youth - a time I’ll call “close.” We aren’t fully adults but we’re close, we’re not completely out and independent, but we’re close. And once again, w......Read the rest...

...(a story in Senryus) I can’t figure out why everything doesn’t happen like I want. I brush my teeth and floss regularly, I wash my roommates dishes, I am generous, I don’t run ......Read the rest...

...This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history? We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan. It was mid-morning, we’d done the present thing, and it......Read the rest...

...With silly smile, playing laptop keyboard keys, I relay tales of brief, college bliss, where days, like dry martinis, swiftly pass lips that pucker for life’s capricious kiss. My roommates brin......Read the rest...

...Everybody helped build the communal treehouse Badger, fox, bunny, chipmunk, squirrel, owl and mouse. In the end we served molasses, honey and jam on bread. Can I join you up there? Asked a hen nam......Read the rest...

...I received a re-invitation email this morning. A ‘come on, why don’t you want to?’ note that struck me as odd. See, I’ve been ‘tapped’ for a couple of final clubs at Yale. It can happen if you earn t......Read the rest...

...It’s Friday afternoon. Anna, Lisa, Leong and I are sitting around our common room - sagging actually - after a long day. “I need a break,” I said, “now’s the time - today, this day - it's been a lo......Read the rest...

...Lisa and I wrap and rap for Christmas. Can you imagine the two of us doing that? We’ve got Christmas playlists going Christmas scented candles glowing, and milky hot-chocolate flowing. “Stir......Read the rest...