Short Bedeviled Poems

 

Bedeviled by lust
He didn't wear red or have a cape
But oh, those brown eyes

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Beware of being bedeviled
Every day and night
Devil takes various forms
Every now and then
Voyaging thru the sky
In myriad colours
Looking for his next victim...

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I have often been bedeviled

        By it I have oft been disheveled

  Too many times have been frought

  With fears that have been wrought

        Only to leave me ~ Unlevelled!...

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Hearing 
Stranges voices
Causing an afflicted mind
Feeling a sensation like a 
Needle that pricks all your body and soul
Submerging in a black abyss
Without a future hope
Of resurface
Again 








2-24-2016...

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Public opinions that
Undermine the ground on which we walk
Bedeviled only be enticing jeers
Emotions that are vexing are laid-out with a cuss
Ranting &  raving "The world is out to get us!"
Taking in sustenance over parental spiels
You've not forgotten how it feels?...

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Rather be dead
            than be traduced for protecting kin

Prefer to be extinguished        
            than bedeviled for verbal truths

Better to be deceased
            than pen elementary ordure

Disheartened by
            mean spirits leading to my demise

Blood spilled
            on your hands...

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The printer has gone berserk
Throwing out my work
Launching A4 paper asunder 
Is it any wonder
That if you need to make haste
It is easier to copy and paste
Halt bedeviled font copying machine
Such tandrum I have never seen
A4 all over the desk and floor
Throw the switch, pull the plug
Damage you will do no more...

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At the cross roads i stood,
Bedeviled with indecision
But i must travel one path
A making or marring decision,
I snubbed the throes path
For the greener and grassy path
Have been on this greener path
For a century, only to be trapped
In  staccato doldrums,
I shall recount to my offspring
The folly of wrong decision


awoh awoh...

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Rancid rancor
From a pungent poet
Sipping fermented anger
From a shoe of Moet
Caustic climax
Of a pernicious plot
Spilling into the holes
Of his soul’s rot
Lathered Laces
In a fuming froth
Tying her infidelity
In a knotted troth
Twisted tongue
Beneath a bedeviled bog
Silenced by frayed fingers
Beneath a drunken fog...

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Oh, to sway in a hammock of palm
     Glistening in sunlight from our nearest star
Surrounded by trios of succulent mango
     Heeding the beat of a jungle psalm 

Oh, to rock in a cradle of cotton
     Tinted by prism of rainbow delight
Regaled by the whispers of breezy blue rivers
     Bedeviled by nothing, all troubles forgotten...

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They answer questions seldom asked
tend to the mundane, "lesser" tasks
their halos tilted scally caps
homilies of wilted raps
soulless homeless shooting craps
rattling unnumbered dice
you may win once, never twice.
These voices of the lesser god
bedeviled by a life unshod
still reach to touch the garments hem
of gods that turned away from them.



3/30/2020...

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bedeviled by saucy angels
he takes a twilight walk

behind his eyes
the old world is fading away
left and right
were but one
unclimbable horizon

he quickened his steps
as if fast walking would
outpace the beating of his
homeless heart

as for the tender-hearted angels
they were undressing
always undressing

always demanding
he stay rooted in his earth


if he could

even if he couldn't...

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Beguiled in the Garden of Eden.
Eve brought mortality to herself and then, to man.
Deceived by Satan’s clever enticements.
Earth became a testing ground; separation from God began.
Vanquished by sin, then expelled from the beautiful Garden. 
Idyllic life replaced by: toil, thistles and struggles; enduring faith tested.
Living with hope for salvation, bedeviled by sin, sacrifice began.

© October 14, 2010
 Dane Smith-Johnsen...

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