Champagne Optional
...a scattering of rice
a few awkward toasts
waves goodbye
tin cans trailing
just married sign
upside down
short drive to motel
six, no a/c
bedsprings creak
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Categories:
bedsprings, divorce, marriage, repetition, romance,
Form: Free verse
Love Bones
...Bedsprings crochet bones together.
His back is sutured to gripes
stitched to gummy joints.
In the toilet, avoiding the mirror,
humming softly,
shunning conversation with himself -
the ceiling...
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Categories:
bedsprings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sounds Behind the Dark
...When alone in a quiet space
still the distant slamming of doors,
or the rattle of castanets
confirm that the world is not shut out
but just moving from room to room,
soon it will burst through ...
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Categories:
bedsprings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Love Bones
...Bedsprings crochet bones together.
His back is sutured to gripes
stitched to gummy joints.
In the toilet, avoiding the mirror,
humming softly,
shunning conversation with himself -
the ceiling...
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Categories:
bedsprings, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
The Listener
...New York City is where people who are
disappearing go. It is very quiet
here, silent. A man and woman
made love below me. I could hear
the bedsprings ringing and the
woman singing in sensual pai...
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Categories:
bedsprings, city, feelings, new york,
Form: Verse
Spring-Loaded
...I once knew this guy. Fred McBride
Whose wishes were sadly denied
He was wed in the spring
But before he could bring
the needs, of his wife, satisfied !
It's a shame that this groom and his br...
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Categories:
bedsprings, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Most Likely To Succeed
...All the windows down.
Shades drawn.
Door locked.
Against the imitation mahogany, a little manila card:
"Check out time: 3 o'clock."
Click!
All dark now.
Hmmmmm.
The Wizard Deluxe 16" Oscillating Fa...
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Categories:
bedsprings, angst, death, depression, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Fire of Love
...Passion heats the room,
With flickering...midnight flames-
On crackling bedsprings.
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Inspired by Celene Crescent’s Senryu Desires...
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Categories:
bedsprings, love
Form: Senryu