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Floorboards Poems - Poems about Floorboards

Premium Member Blue cheese and old pickles
... I shudder while peering at sepia photographs, showing visits to my maiden Aunt Hilda’s house. Even though I was very young it was clear she didn’t tolerate children. I was to be ‘Seen and not......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For My Truest Love
...I had a dream last night that I was as tired as tired could get, And my legs were aching, and my hands shook viciously, and my tongue fell from its hinges, But still I saw you driving and followed......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, beauty, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Prose Poetry



Towards Newness
...The Tiger Lily is gently removed from the lounge so it wont ever come in contact with the cats fur My visitor asks for Steppenwolf on the player The song "Tenderness" has reticence Its hard to kn......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ghost of a Flea - William Blake
... parasitic it creeps between stage curtains floorboards collect grooves an advertised show that's bait & switch draws us in expected to stare into the near dar......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Tears in Vacant Rooms
... Written: March 05, 2025 *********************** As the final petal droops upon quivering leaves, while the soul begins to decay akin to the evening lights fading in......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, analogy, death, fear,
Form: Free verse



Frightening
...Frightening... The night is heavy, thick with dread, whispers slither through the air, calling voices long since dead. Frightening... A knock—too soft, too slow, too light, no one should be a......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, fear, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Bloodcurdling
...Bloodcurdling... A scream splits through the dead of night, sharp as glass, raw with pain, choking, gasping, lost from sight. Bloodcurdling... Footsteps pound down hollow halls, too fast, too......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, scary,
Form: Rhyme
The Orange Brick House in Westridge Farms
...I was worried they’d paint the house brown Or red or green or blue. I couldn’t even imagine They’d turn it into something new Now they’re ripping up the floorboards Like your absence tore my ......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, 9th grade, bereavement, funeral,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Blank Stare From A Rocking Chair
...A breeze did slide in under eaves and stirred inside the air that grieves, my children grown my dreams have flown, alone I sit my rocking throne. My chair in front of window bare, I look… but......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, fate, grief, irony, life,
Form: Kyrielle
The Freezer
...The freezer. It could be icy. Slippery. There was once a pint of ice cream. I ate my last bite. There is something under the floorboards. Just ideas. Or spiders. A note from the last re......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letters From Me Heart To The Board Of Sweet Grace
...Grace’s Council — Open... One fine day, a little dit of a field-mouse, so tiny and meek, an avid reader of letters came to a freeze; dry-iced to her fav’rite spot at Grace’s library. As her teeny ......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, emotions, friendship love, heart,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member - Angels For Your Soul -
... A winter night where the stars will gleam divinely touched with silver beam Through the floorboards of heaven they......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, angel, beauty, heaven,
Form: Couplet
A Haunting in Alabama
...I found you. From the floorboards, to the trunk, to the stairs, to my table, you shambled. Howling and bleeding. God, I had wanted so badly to recognize you. To have some common ground wit......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, art, death, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sitewide Collaboration
... Let's get involved as a community by collaborating together on Limericks like the one posted here. If you want to join, send me your limerick(s) in a soup mail. Ghouls and goblins are such a fr......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, community, halloween,
Form: Limerick
It’s over isn’t it
...they dont know im the midas of rust everything i touch turns to dust but i have something midas lacks, eyes to see through window cracks, ears to hear the floorboards creek, legs to move me from......Read the rest...
Categories: floorboards, absence, allusion, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme

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