Short Bedfellows Poems

desire and nonchalance 
make strange bedfellows 
somewhat akin to a

~ gentle tornado or
~ a benign bliss burn...

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Differing from our enemy,
in one way the same

Our conflict in common
—to praise or to blame

(The New Room: May, 2021)...

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Travel …
strange bedfellows
made of us all
Crossing
the threshold
hesitancy stalls
Calling us
forward
the moment attacked
Hiding
our fortunes
—the future on track

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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Bookends  gently,  clasp a saga 
with  many  ‘In the Beginning’s
and ‘The End's aligned as read,
or in order tall in center, at ends,
with short ones stuffed between
estranged, deranged bedfellows
of genres  compelled  to collude.
...

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Lakes lie limpid imponderable, 
glistening and glassy.
Looking like kites hanging 
suspended in the sky,
towing streams as shimmering tails,
wriggling in the wind.

Lakes and streams are inseparable, 
codependent, bedfellows,
each alike each other,
with wet bed bottoms
and wet watery entrails....

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Horror haiku                     



                                               eyes terrified
                                       something half dead rising 
                                              an ancient grave  










Form:haiku
Subject: Horror
unusual bedfellows...

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Being betrothed to anger, a sorry  wife,
Inspires words, often verbalized in haste.
Anger pilfers joy, devastating your life,
It seeks soft targets, and lays them waste.

Collateral damage invariably is found,
Even the blameless, have charge to pay.
Slain or injured ego's too oft abound,
Knowingly perished by this bedfellows fray....

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A spider traipsed onto my knee
While I was reading in the bath
Though most might jump and scream and flee,
I just gave a little laugh

A baby Daddy Long-Legs!
(Though really, 'twas just a son)
I shooed him back onto his web,
And continued reading on...

*title is a spin on "Strange Bedfellows" ;)

*Lessons in life are funny contest entry
~JustThatArchaicPoet...

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Took me by surprise
friendship meant nothing to you
built trust then betrayed

sorrow and anger
bedfellows that give no sleep
open wound is raw

pardon is my salve
as the Lord does unto me
mercy I must show

not weakness but strength
rise above in faith and love
healing my reward

For contest 'Forgiveness', sponsor Laura Loo
18th August 2016...

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Weren’t you lucky, up to time of your blood thirsty war,
Russian sports, especially gymnasts and ballet at the fore,
Gave your presidency of Russia somewhat of a credit,
Hopefully with Western sanctions you’ll swim in debit
And, as for the Patriarch of your Russian Orthodox Church
Strange bedfellows you are, so odd,
You Putin, and your puppet Patriarch, will one day face God....

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Lines on forehead are deepening.
No signs of abatement
of fire in our bellies.

The hunger we inherited
is only comforting
the mouthless.

Broken laughs.
Strange bedfellows
chopping off the murals from the lips.

A body rots,
stinks.
Maggots fly.

Negotiations are still on.
Who will dissect the legend
to find the cause of death?

Like a clay model, a soldier breaks.


SATISH VERMA...

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The bedraggled beget bedfellows with
Tangled hair, tattered sleeves, a sea churn chaotic.
Comfort is found in a rumpled, ruffled unkempt state,
Shared by a weary soul and a heartless sea sat beside.
For sorrow will draw in where sorrow has been.
Churn will discern a likeness for agitation,
Beyond the calm that demands order, prim, proper, neat.
For it's disorder that makes a ruffled mind
Seek solace in a ragged heart, torn, and well worn....

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Sullivan, my pet ghost
Lives in my mango tree
Loves cottage cheese
Plays chess with me
Always loses game

He loves my cat Betty
A Felix parabolus
Who has long ears
Hears distant sounds of rats
She also loves Sullivan

One day they vanished

I have no mango tree any more
We take neither fish nor dairy products

A spook and a cat
strange bedfellows

Dr, Ashfalt has invited me
To write a thesis on Katzegeistung 
At Hogwarts University....

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Born beautiful, bacon breath,
Beau, besides being boisterous,
basketcase boggles,
batty behavior,
bounds beyond boundaries,
brazen barking bravado,
bane of UPS drivers bringing boxes,
bowling bewildered brother canine bedfellows,
befriending beagles,
basking beside bashful basset hounds,
belabors begging beef at table,
bedazzled by butterflies,
bobblehead bouncy Beau,
basically befuddled,
becalmed by bedtime biscuit,
beloved baffling beastie!...

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