Best Bedpost Poems

He's infuriatingly...

pretty...

and I follow myself over his smile to find my eyes, promising uncertainty and chewing on
my bottom lip with the hunger that resides in...

love...

He...

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Through the open window
An unintended entry way
Pale the moonlight streaming
Careless, now the price to pay

It perched upon my bedpost
All reality to confound
A tilted head, a...

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Lemonade drips on her cracked freckled lips,
I was studying the way that she speaks,
Her tone got rough, like she's had enough,
she was tired of amusing...

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How unparticular the day had particularly been,

On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,

For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,

Had lacked company, and therefore,...

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It is a beautiful sunset

The dusk of night slowly enters

This chilly winter night

It’s not about seeing
The moon rise splendid in the sky

Like a light of...

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You visit me in dreams…
Phantom of broken hearts, you materialize, 
With a seductive smile on your lips – 
And dagger blades in your liquid eyes…
Casanova...

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The night seemed lonely and the day seemed dreadful,
as I slept last night I felt the continuous...

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Lay down beside me
Let's break these picture frames
and roll around in the glass
until our bodies are as bloody as 
     ...

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Winter's gone
I can tell
Those  birds are at it again
At almost daylight
so close to the open skylight
They could be on the bedpost
Winter's gone
Again...

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THE ASTHMATIC

He was 53 when I was born,
A victim by depression shorn,
Never to know much of his own,
Enjoying neither car nor home.
Yet my father never...

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As chewing gum loses flavor
Stuck on the bedpost over night
As stale a romance not savored  
`Tis soon moved out of one’s own sight

One's life...

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I always laid here
This same spot with the same grief
With the same tears every passing night
Laying all the blames at my bedpost
And I mean all...

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Only time will tell the outcome of this rhyme,
Whether it will succeed in the nick of time.
So better safe than sorry, as they say,
A good...

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Stars crash against God's bedpost,
while the dead dream of thunder.
 
Eyelids cringe under their strike-
The smell of burning wood,
The rot of tomorrow's precipice,
drifts out beyond...

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I have been struggling with a faded thought
until my mind's become confused and tangled.
At a crossroad, this battle is being fought
between my stubborn brain and...

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