Short Houses Poems

Short Houses Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Houses by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Houses by length and keyword.


Celluloid End

Lovers lips promise despair
The needle-
Full of poison,
Houses acid daydreams
Choices are made
This is a celluloid end.


Laziness

Laziness is good.
It made monkey,
to grow long tail.
Now it eats free things,
lives in free houses,
up in free tree tops.

Premium Member The Downpour

downpours in midsummer lavish houses with creek view a flooded slum
Written: January 14, 2022
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

The Good Old Days

the good old days
blacks lining up for restrooms
always in back
buses, trains, movie houses--all
but please spend your money here
Form: Tanka

Summer In South India

blue clear cloudless sky
                  It is humid and hot sans breeze
                  Rich shelter a/c houses Poor sweat suffer
Form: Haiku


Come Toppling Down

O' you ancient towers and spires
erected over houses of liars
you will surely fall as says fate
change your ways before it's too late
© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Jack Frost


It’s Jack Frost . . . 
The land around is snow embossed.
For warmth, spouses
Cling to each other in closed houses.


3rd place
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member And First Place Goes To --

The body houses the soul
        that is its primary role

     But with all of the body's demands
        the poor soul is an also-ran
Form: Couplet

Mansion Time

long drive home I pass all houses
now lit from within
most huge houses with gates and horses
and the circular drive way that does them in

Premium Member Thirty-Five Minutes To Cry

You got thirty-five minutes to cry
As this bus rides by houses you see.
You got thirty-five minutes to dry
Your eyes, as you silently cry…
cry

Blazing As Sunset

Blazing as sunset,
they grope as houses on dense-leafed cliffs
reflecting their image
in the motionless lake...
shouldn't they welcome Winter?
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Save the Beach House or the Beach

the beach is public
but the beach house is private
when the sea erodes,
which is saved; you can't save both
saving houses erodes the beach
Form: Tanka

Rat and the Cat

both small
hide behind the wall
love the water fall
they in the houses
cat chase the mouse
 its like that
its all about
the
RAT AND THE CAT

Abandoned Houses

Time has passed to quick
Weeds do grow where flowers were
Nourished by nature

Abandoned houses falling in ruins
Behind rusty overgrown fences
Form: Tanka

A Distressed Man

Riding a local train 
through the Bangladeshi scorching heat 
an old man told me 
how his houses were submerged 
into the Bay of Bengal at night.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Bantu

Neighbor's gossip carried like stones in the wind.
 Glass houses shatter.

3/22/23
Contest: Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney
Form: Imagism

Earthquake In Haiti

Boom! was all we heard
houses sunk into the earth
the foul smell of death

Another heavy blow
upon the Caribbean home
earthquake took it's toll
© King Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Katrina Homecoming

The flood waters lapped all around
Leaving not very much dry ground
So we all rowed home
And got The Road Home
Raising our houses up off the ground
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Landscape Horizon Chicken Houses-

showery blue air
A big, menacing house flaps
old chicken shadow

covers landscape dawn
rooster stocks crowing out loud
cock-a-doodle-doo

6/7/19
Form: Haiku

Premium Member People in Glass Houses

People in glass houses
Shouldn’t throw stones 
Fighting feuding spouses
Make unhappy home
Rocky words heavy with hate
Sinking souls as hearts break
Form: Rhyme

Fear Not Thieves But Virus

Doors kept wide opened

Why do you fear of thieves?

All thieves in arrest 

In their own,small houses

Don’t fear of thieves!

But Coronavirus!

I Am Home

Seven rivers,
ten miles more,
I walk on,
I walk on.

Seven hills
five miles more,
I walk on,
I walk on.

Seven houses,
one mile more,
I am home,
I am home.

Mother Earth Breathing

Fire, birds and trees 
are dancing the wind rhythm 
Mother earth breathing!

Tree falls kills a man 
Other between two houses 
Mother earth breathing!
Form: Haiku

Dream a Sunrise

Trees dark gray in shade 
Clouds a mix of loud orange and morning pink 
Time without noise of a parade 
Beyond the houses about peeks the sun with a wink
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Shared Nightmare

good friends running scared
chased in the night by their dreams
have the same nightmare
good friends in separate houses
chased by monsters in their dreams
Form: Tanka

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