Poems About Home by Top Critiquers
#home
All the Pools Are Sparkling
At Mistwood Gardens
or Birchstream Meadows
Or The Club at Hunter Ridge (which sits between a gas station and a KFC)
all the apartments are luxury
all the pools are sparkling
and the fabulous amenities
like an on site laundry room
provide the lifestyle you deserve!
Come home to Random Name Farms
located just a short gunshot away from gang territory
where the pools - when they are not closed -
are packed with peeing kids
and the drunk adults
blast amelodic profanity- laced music
until close to midnight
At...
or Birchstream Meadows
Or The Club at Hunter Ridge (which sits between a gas station and a KFC)
all the apartments are luxury
all the pools are sparkling
and the fabulous amenities
like an on site laundry room
provide the lifestyle you deserve!
Come home to Random Name Farms
located just a short gunshot away from gang territory
where the pools - when they are not closed -
are packed with peeing kids
and the drunk adults
blast amelodic profanity- laced music
until close to midnight
At...
#home
#city
#TruthOfLife #deception
#TruthOfLife #deception
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just a white walled house
This house is not a home
it's just bare white rental walls
we're not approved to decorate
We don't own anything nice
sleep on mattresses on the floor
and you somehow think that's normal
living so cheaply we wake up in pain
I'm tired of bare walls
and second hand furniture
that was already old when we got it
I've lost count of the tip runs
we've done this year
because things break
or no longer work as intended
We could have saved money
owning better things
but you hold our...
it's just bare white rental walls
we're not approved to decorate
We don't own anything nice
sleep on mattresses on the floor
and you somehow think that's normal
living so cheaply we wake up in pain
I'm tired of bare walls
and second hand furniture
that was already old when we got it
I've lost count of the tip runs
we've done this year
because things break
or no longer work as intended
We could have saved money
owning better things
but you hold our...
#depression
#home
#poverty
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6 Comments
The S.S. Steward Ship
It's every man for himself, they say,
On our sinking ship of state
And god help those who get in the way
Of America's free enterprise trait...
Always sharpening its dozer blade
To plough and pave more dreamy streets
Where industry and ownership trade
Mother nature for new motorcar fleets
Parked on a patch we pretend to own,
As aristocrats on sovereign earth,
But where indebtedness is what gets grown
When only mortgages are giving birth,
Which poorly treats god given soil
Almost as bad as fracking oil.
On our sinking ship of state
And god help those who get in the way
Of America's free enterprise trait...
Always sharpening its dozer blade
To plough and pave more dreamy streets
Where industry and ownership trade
Mother nature for new motorcar fleets
Parked on a patch we pretend to own,
As aristocrats on sovereign earth,
But where indebtedness is what gets grown
When only mortgages are giving birth,
Which poorly treats god given soil
Almost as bad as fracking oil.
#home
#earth
#environment #pollution
#environment #pollution
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Golden Empire
The landscape changes every ten miles in each direction
Ranches and fields to the south and west
A brown panorama due to fracking in the north
And large farms to the east, leading to the mountains
To the southern tip of the Sierras
Although most of the town is flat
On the outskirts
The roads move up and down with the terrain
Where the land is open and wide
On the highways you can drive for miles
And see nothing but fields
You can see the migrant workers
Working under the hot summer sun
Working in the harshest...
Ranches and fields to the south and west
A brown panorama due to fracking in the north
And large farms to the east, leading to the mountains
To the southern tip of the Sierras
Although most of the town is flat
On the outskirts
The roads move up and down with the terrain
Where the land is open and wide
On the highways you can drive for miles
And see nothing but fields
You can see the migrant workers
Working under the hot summer sun
Working in the harshest...
#home
#city
#nature #LifeCycle
#nature #LifeCycle
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8 Comments
For My Mom Today
Mom. I think you've been gone
Almost a year now. I understand
So much I didn't before. I think
Everything you sat at your desk
And worried about I now worry
About endlessly too. I wonder
When they're coming to take
The house, I worry about the
Electricity getting shut off and
The water stopping again. You
Were someone who craved
Order and neatness, that's what
You needed to be calm and okay.
It makes me sad because I
Couldn't manage to give you that
When you were alive. We
Seemed to have so...
Almost a year now. I understand
So much I didn't before. I think
Everything you sat at your desk
And worried about I now worry
About endlessly too. I wonder
When they're coming to take
The house, I worry about the
Electricity getting shut off and
The water stopping again. You
Were someone who craved
Order and neatness, that's what
You needed to be calm and okay.
It makes me sad because I
Couldn't manage to give you that
When you were alive. We
Seemed to have so...
#mother
#LifeStruggles
#home
#memories
#poverty
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Concavities
a clean mirror
it's half the house.
the rest is mere
annex
convex
complex
reflex!
a clean mirror
sees the whole house.
The rest has
no sexus
no nexus
no plexus
some implexus!
PAR
it's half the house.
the rest is mere
annex
convex
complex
reflex!
a clean mirror
sees the whole house.
The rest has
no sexus
no nexus
no plexus
some implexus!
PAR
#home
#hell
#WritingPoetry
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Home
My place is no showplace
replete with fragile
dust magnets,
museum piece furnishings encircled
by invisible red velvet ropes
be my comfortable guest
lay about on the sofas
walk hither and thither
wearing shoes or not
no room verboten
no carpet reserved
for special occasions
clothing, while not
completely optional,
is by no dress code bound
so, let your hair down
or up, or cue ball shaven
you'll be not judged
it's a be-yourself haven.
replete with fragile
dust magnets,
museum piece furnishings encircled
by invisible red velvet ropes
be my comfortable guest
lay about on the sofas
walk hither and thither
wearing shoes or not
no room verboten
no carpet reserved
for special occasions
clothing, while not
completely optional,
is by no dress code bound
so, let your hair down
or up, or cue ball shaven
you'll be not judged
it's a be-yourself haven.
#happiness
#home
#peace #freedom
#peace #freedom
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his way through Kent
Chaucer was the
greatest writer of his age.
“how old was he, then ..”
that’s not what I meant
greatest writer of his age.
“how old was he, then ..”
that’s not what I meant
#home
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Homecoming
***
tainted whispers are set adrift
floating down the ravines
of an abstract ear
a trinity of fingers stretch open your snatch
a pinky curves into the rear
ahhh...so many breaths
for me to catch...one by one
fished out of a sacred pond of libations
you flavor my digits unabashedly
as i flavor your mind
unwind your extravagances
though sexual...sensual...encounters
expressed with the explicitness
you've come to expect
from me
i pull out..take a greedy slurp
then plunge...
tainted whispers are set adrift
floating down the ravines
of an abstract ear
a trinity of fingers stretch open your snatch
a pinky curves into the rear
ahhh...so many breaths
for me to catch...one by one
fished out of a sacred pond of libations
you flavor my digits unabashedly
as i flavor your mind
unwind your extravagances
though sexual...sensual...encounters
expressed with the explicitness
you've come to expect
from me
i pull out..take a greedy slurp
then plunge...
#home
#lover
#sensual
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7 Comments
Someone call them home
Someone call them home their Shepherd is no more
They still there in the wild,
They still grazing
The Sun is setting
I hear their young begin to cry
As darkness descends
Someone call them home their master is no more
There are wolves in the mountains
Predators waiting to pounce on whichever falls astray
They are lost in the wild
Exposed and vulnerable
Easy pickings
Someone call them home their becon to guide them home is no more
We all know if he was still
He would have brought them home
Before...
They still there in the wild,
They still grazing
The Sun is setting
I hear their young begin to cry
As darkness descends
Someone call them home their master is no more
There are wolves in the mountains
Predators waiting to pounce on whichever falls astray
They are lost in the wild
Exposed and vulnerable
Easy pickings
Someone call them home their becon to guide them home is no more
We all know if he was still
He would have brought them home
Before...
#LifeStruggles
#home
#animals
349 reads
9 Comments
she's reading my erotic poetry
#home
#TruthOfLife
626 reads
9 Comments
Chapter 9 Home
Chapter 9 Home
As the plane began its descent into Oklahoma City, Brittney felt a heavy weight settle in her chest. The city lights below twinkled below like distant stars. She knew this place well, but it felt foreign after being in Kansas City four days.
As she closed her laptop thinking of all the learning from those days, she felt a tangled web of guilt and regret.
She had always prided herself on her faith, integrity, and loyalty. She had been raised with strong moral values, waiting until marriage before sharing herself with her husband, Alex....
As the plane began its descent into Oklahoma City, Brittney felt a heavy weight settle in her chest. The city lights below twinkled below like distant stars. She knew this place well, but it felt foreign after being in Kansas City four days.
As she closed her laptop thinking of all the learning from those days, she felt a tangled web of guilt and regret.
She had always prided herself on her faith, integrity, and loyalty. She had been raised with strong moral values, waiting until marriage before sharing herself with her husband, Alex....
#regret
#marriage
#betrayal #home
#betrayal #home
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