Moving

Moving HOUSE and HOME

I'm selling my house and moving into an apartment in a retirement community. This prompt is to encourage me/us to write about the transition from steward of place to occupant of space--or vice versa.  Of course, it's not as simple or as separate as that. Is moving ever simple?

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Delve into your own experience, or choose one of the following poems to inspire you, and create a moving house-and-home moving poem. 

What life-altering move(s) have you made?

What did/will you bring from old home to new?  

What would be your ultimate fantasy move?

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I've sampled each of the following poems.  Please follow the links to read the entire poem:

Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666

BY ANNE BRADSTREET

Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning
of Our house, July 10th. 1666. Copied Out of
a Loose Paper.

In silent night when rest I took,

For sorrow near I did not look,

I wakened was with thund’ring noise

And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice.

That fearful sound of “fire” and “fire,”

Let no man know is my Desire.

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Home
BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST

It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home,
A heap o’ sun an’ shadder, an’ ye sometimes have t’ roam
Afore ye really ’preciate the things ye lef’ behind,
An’ hunger fer ’em somehow, with ’em allus on yer mind.
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ON LOSING A HOUSE

By Mary Oliver

“On Losing a House,” by Mary Oliver, appeared in the Winter 2001 issue of MQR.

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Where will we go
with our table and chairs,
our bed,
our nine thousand books,
our TV, PC, VCR,
our cat
who is sixteen years old?
Where will we put down
our dishes and our blue carpets,
where will we put up
our rose-colored,
rice-paper
shades?

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Happy writing!  Link your poem for this prompt, and then visit and comment on others' poems.  We will visit you, too.  Have a good day!

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