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Best Bedfellow Poems

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A Strange Bedfellow
Woman Is Insulted,
By Challenging His Manhood;
Getting His Buddies To Rape,
Was His Way Of Reinforcing.

He, Not a Man,
Force Himself On a Feminist.
Give a Valid Reason While...

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Categories: bedfellow, childhood, confusion, daughter, depression,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member Precious
Every person matters
No one more than another
Our lifeblood is red
  We are all brothers

Human beings are precious
Be they black, white, or yellow
If you don't...

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Categories: bedfellow, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Astral Trip - Version 1
It seemed like
An innocent experiment
Simple enough
I had read the steps
Bedtime routine out of the way
I was ready to start

Relaxing tape playing for ambiance
I was gone...

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Categories: bedfellow, journey, mystery, night, space,
Form: Free verse
The Green Man
He speaks for the uprooted.
A man of sorts, a twiggy Buddha.
He who interprets
the conferences of frogs,
the unpublished works
of kestrels and voles.

He’s an advocate for the...

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Categories: bedfellow, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Run the Course
I watch time's faithful ebb and flow
scribed by the sun, moon, and starlight glow,
the silver sea's tiding ways
held fast in Luna's unseen stays.
No matter where...

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Categories: bedfellow, character, life, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member You Don'T Like Me
you don't like me...and that's ok
you need your comfort zone in tact
and so you keep away
passionately intense people
can make life a little messy
blood bath of...

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Categories: bedfellow, truth, , literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Acquainted With Grief
(Poetry Form: Sonakit)  - with Free Verse, or Blank Verse interspersed between the verses of the Sonnet.

I have been one brought low in grief
my...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bedfellow, death, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Convict Part 1
Yesterday my wife and boy passed on from this despicable scene.
Trapped in the floating, cesspool of human misery for months we have been.
I tried to...

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Categories: bedfellow, adventure, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Awake Alone
I awake....alone
at times like this
it seems...
I'm forever alone
the bed is empty
no human form
I'm alone

Well, that's not completely true
I have a bedfellow
He keeps me awake
chases my...

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Categories: bedfellow, how i feel, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spell of a Stranger
The sprout of momentary illusion, 
the voyage of a derelict dream in place of a lie,
the lure of April, the deceit of May concertized in...

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Categories: bedfellow, allusion, analogy, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse
Life On Green Baize
Sure this is just another snooker hall
dark with that familiar smell, smoky stale,
emerald green baize field of play, cue ball
pristine white, cushioned top and bottom...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bedfellow, green, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Just Walked Away
You just walked away 

An elevator happening by chance
Accidental meeting our old romance
An unconcerned casual hello
Said without much thought
My old bedfellow 

Diamond and a wedding...

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Categories: bedfellow, betrayal, break up, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In a Winter's Silent Night
Behind the stillness of space
the wind hides its self. 

Yet, in the void timed space 
we can feel the chill she left exposed.

The moon stands...

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Categories: bedfellow, analogy, metaphor, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Ten Word Challenge
This was written as another challenge by Silent One.  This one was in the form of using 10 words of his choice.

Colored Skies

I woke...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bedfellow, color, sky,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Captain Noah's Cruise
Noah welcomed his passengers aboard the ark two-by-twos,
For a trip ordained by God, a hundred and fifty day cruise.
It rained steadily for forty miserable days...

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Categories: bedfellow, animals
Form: Rhyme

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