Short Bedspread Poems

Around artistic altar, 
Boys betray bedspread
Courting candid challenge
Dearly....

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rose
petals
strewn about
perfumed bedspread
anticipating a whimsical flight

underestimated martini's strength
his eyes lay fixed
as she sleeps
wedding
night...

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Here lies the poet, who had bored you the most,
Keeping you awake, he did his wisdom boast;
Do not think, he has gone away, as he's dead,
His unwritten verses are in your bedspread...


25 April 2022...

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A Candlewick bedspread,
it must be Blackpool or Paris.

A towering sadness,
for she is lost between the waves
of there and now.

Moonlight above the 'Golden Coral',
Wednesday is half-price for seniors....

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He laid nest by his pillow near head...and woke 'neath a mantis bedspread!


Sandra M. Haight

~6th Place~
Contest: Funny One-Liner
Sponsor: Silent One
Judged: 10/11/2016
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I have a tiny pony, 
so small she lives indoors.
She scampers up the stairway
to sleep atop my bedspread.

I never can be lonely 
for this wee horse adores
To be with me all day 
To share my buttered cornbread....

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Someone once told me,
Crying is acknowledging the dead.
Normally I’d agree, but
as I lie on my bedspread,
Thinking about who knows what,
I realize I’m not dead.
I cry all the while being alive.
I’m here but filled with dread.
So,
Am I soon to be dead?...

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One hard, metal frame
Split box spring; mattress stacked upon
"500 count-thread" fitted sheet
Flat, satin sheet; neatly spread above all
6 pillows, 3 additional decorative cushions
One oversized, cold, striped bedspread
One Body, to soak up all the comforts?








5/17/11...

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My home sweet home be, by a salt water taffy sea
Where I dream dreamy dreams of whipped creams,
From a pillow of marshmallow on a bed of Jell-O
Under a bedspread of gingerbread, iced in red,
My doors and floors made of graham cracker s'mores 
And gumdrops, lollipops and candy-coated rooftops.



(December, 6th, 2022)...

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The mirror showed
a Chinese lady pedalling a bike
in a pink kimono

The mirror showed
trees bowing
to a tropical (pina colada) lake

The mirror showed
a pink bedspread
losing her magnolias

The mirror showed
me grabbing your arm
and twisting it backwards

the moment when we pretended
to be real ballerinas
shows in the mirror...

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we suffer the symbols
and darts of self offence
and tout them around
to prove the right or wrong
of some weak or strong
circumstance position...
signs and symbols
just intellectual thimbles
for pushing a point home
to sew and to weave
ideas together
every night
into a bedspread
of token dreams...
i put all that aside
and go to sleep...

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She seduced me
My bed seduced me

She is a lofty cushion, gorgeous and grand
A model of the Elope brand
My body succumbed to the irresistible call
For the temptation to sleep, I did fall
My bed, my seductress beckoned me
To her enthralling self

My bed seduced me
Also, her bedspread were a beauty to stare
I was charmed to it
Therefore, I cuddled up myself in it, to sleep...

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Make his bed he needs to sleep,
Undisturbed and in peace,
Brown sheets should be washed and clean
Laid out without any crease.

Take care to check the bedspread
Those pillows do not ignore,
For he’ll sleep much longer now
Than he has ever before.

Ensure no mellow sunshine,
Sweet birdsong nor worldly din,
Stirs him from his slumber deep
Distressing his rest within.
         ***********...

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This soft cotton bedspread,
Clings to me like comfortable armor,
Shielding from the world outside my solace,
My one haven,
This diamond in the rough,
In the metaphorical minefield called family life.

Place your bets please..

Who really holds the winning hand,
What do you gain from trust,
Who do you stand to loose,
You or them,
Same old tricks new disguise
Ace of Guilt and the Jack of Deception

Black-Jack...

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Millie our three-year-old  
With tears that rolled 
Down her pink little cheeks 
As she looks around and peeks 
Under her dolls bed 
And under its bedspread.

I went out to see what was wrong,
It was going on too long.

"Mommy, I cannot find my doll. 
I had her wrap in her shawl
And laid her here in her bed."

I look up our yorkie has fled 
Into the house to his bed.

There under his chin laid the doll.
"No. No Loll. It’s not your doll."...

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Written by Gail DeBole
on March 11, 2020


- Putting together a scrapbook of your child’s best moments
- Creating an heirloom bedspread out of old T-shirts for your child 
- Framing a child’s stick-figure picture like it is the Mona Lisa
- Creating a new dessert, entre, or snack for the family 
- Working on a relationship that is worth working on
- Working towards a goal whether or not it is achieved
- Writing a poem that uniquely describes a precious love...

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May loved her bedspread, vintage, fifty’s, yellow chenille
Worn in many places, but it still had a magical feel
She felt the presence of the former owner of the spread too
An elderly lady who had lived to the ripe age of one hundred and two

A guardian who advised May while she dreamed and slept
Wish my own children had listened to me, the old lady wept
Bedspread and advice were so sacred to the empath, May
She had it buried with her in her coffin on her burial day....

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QUIETLY BEGGING

Quietly begging the sandman - not prayers,
Just the usual inventive techniques
There have been nightmares

Nightmares? Nothing really frightening,
Not yet, just crazy, like
A boatman pointing an opposite shore,
      Inviting  

Pillow soft, yielding, deep
Bedspread, smooth, rippling 
Eye lids heavy in his keep

Uhmm, hummmmmmmm…

“Old granny knows a young child’s heart
Now. Take a bite!
Yessssss, Sleep. Sleeeeeeep. Sleep.”


Dave Austin...

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Does anybody want a treat?
Savory or bittersweet?
Come in from the street 
For something to eat
Does anybody want a treat.

Does anybody want to play?
And have a lot of fun today?
Fetch me a stick 
Or do me a trick
Does anybody want to play.

Does anybody want to run
Underneath the blazing sun?
Does anyone
Want to have fun
Does anybody want to run.

It's dark! Are we ready for bed?
Laid out on the bedspread!
Wearing a smile
And heaped in a pile
Is anyone ready for bed....

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