Best Billet Poems

After a year of working in foreign land, Marilyn the eldest daughter wrote to her family about her situation and job. And most especially to...

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Unladylike though to speak this heart of mine
          for a certain man who makes my day...

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Amour,

A little letter for you,
And a few words to state the sweet obvious.

Keep the love I write of folded up in paper,
Our origami correspondence, if...

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O, e’er she cometh and calleth me from the barren wolds whereupon lieth the first palpitation of the laconic exchange of bashful glances; 

O, whensoe’er...

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You

   I would never ever want to be a house to billet your soul.
I would never ever want to be a cage that...

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1. A satellite on me is so superfluous
b’cos even without it, you’ll see my flaws
my new adulthood on your eyes is a sty
as my every...

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two wrinkled faces
                      ...

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AMETHYST
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Do you remember yesteryear,
with memories so fresh and clear?
That little note, the billet-doux,
for fleeting chance to bill and coo;
a partner free and debonair,
who shared your...

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Peaceful are the water lilies in flower
The ripples of contentment belong to the fish
and quiet is the grass that has healed this scene.
Lone tree crater...

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A Daniel, Come to Judgment!

Before I give my judgment in this case,
my custom is to have the plaintiff read
aloud, before the other party, face to...

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Think of the first world war
think of young Princip
his mud floor house 
with stones for walls

Poverty and shame
it was hard to make an existence
it was...

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It’s a moment of sadness with a steady stream of silence,
bereaved family takes part in welcoming the mourners;
they pay respects to the one they value...

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There once was a young man named Lane
who literally was insane
	he wrote a billet-doux
	using words of voodoo
not knowing it meant to enflame!...

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You,

         I would never ever want to be a house to billet your Soul.
   ...

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