Heart And Sole Complaint
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Tho' they may display legs to best advantage,
observing the constraints, begs the question, 'What's afoot?'
Seems to me I had a bee in my bonnet
about women's proclivities and passion
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Categories:
bedbugs, how i feel, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Flophouse
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Portraits of hedgehogs on his grimy tiled walls
Pete did for good taste what heat does for snow balls
Though a weird kind of charm lay on his carpeted floor
Not hed...
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Categories:
bedbugs, home, horror, insect, kiss,
Form: Couplet
Bed Bugs
...Bedbugs
If bedbugs want to
they can suck out the
air pressure in
airtight chambers.
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Categories:
bedbugs, humor,
Form: Free verse
Freedom Isn't Free
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it’s the small things, always,
like a locked door, like silence after 3 a.m.,
no more eyes watching over the sheets I sleep on,
and the laundry, god, the laundry—
clean and mine, folded by my o...
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Categories:
bedbugs, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Mr Bedbug
...Mr bedbug bugs my bed
My bed is bored and bugged
Mr bedbug can't share any part in my bed
My bed is bored and by bedbugs bugged
Mr bedbug plays hide and seek
It loves to bite and hide for me t...
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Categories:
bedbugs, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Manipulative Monsters
...Believe it or not, their ubiquitous webs
Are everywhere; they are the dictators
Who kidnap, maim, torture and kill teachers,
Poets, ordinary folks and babies in their cribs.
They rob and ransack ...
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Categories:
bedbugs, animal, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Mary Sue Hank Next Door My Hog And Houndog
...Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night
In my ramshackle torn straw old bed
The mice are chewing my toes
And the bedbugs bite
Elephants dancing in my head
I think to myself
"It's not ...
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Categories:
bedbugs, angst, cat, dog, longing,
Form: Free verse
What The Roses Don't Say
...What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch
Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...
They sway, bem...
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Categories:
bedbugs, angst, fear, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Butting Heads with the Bygones
...Bygones are again beginning.
Big Nose Kate and Doc Holliday
bang and toss China plates,
bothering my ears with their
blooming Southern inhospitality.
Bedbugs, I never want em,
because they bi...
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Categories:
bedbugs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Modest Finanaces
...Modest finances
We're supposed to travel to the Algarve, stay at a posh hotel, and eat at a restaurant that sells African food
on my birthday
So many medical bills coming, an unhealthy thud in ...
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Categories:
bedbugs, anti bullying, anxiety, best
Form: Blank verse
Crap Mission
...CRAP MISSION :
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES....
VERSE 1:
Well, all the signs I saw,
Were stroke for us all.
Expressing ourselves in accord,
It's simple for me coming forth.
Their fallacies k...
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Categories:
bedbugs, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Garden Apartment Redemption
...I solemnly received my first toilet auger
As if it were a knight’s well-tempered sword.
It meant I’d passed my ninety-day audition,
And seemed to me a suitable reward.
And so began my tenure wo...
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Categories:
bedbugs, allegory, work,
Form: Burlesque
High Way Adventure
...Poets : Paciolo Pen Saint Ft Empress
Paciolo:
Gently - warmly
Let your thighs caress secretly under my shelter
A long creep into the flight of my mood
Empress:
I'll knee before thy ...
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Categories:
bedbugs, 1st grade, adventure, love,
Form: Free verse
Dreams In the Bunk
...Dreams in the Bunk
By Sy Roth
An aching tired eats away,
Slurping at his soul
Yearning wakefulness from the darkness.
He heaved.
Sigh in a soft world of crimson-waving flowers
Dancing a...
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Categories:
bedbugs, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Putty In Her Hands
...I am waiting for my hair to dye
Because I look like a skunk, which I think is amazing
But bothers my first and last husband.
He is clean and neat. Prissy. He likes things done up.
He likes a ma...
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Categories:
bedbugs, muse,
Form: Free verse
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