Short Eavesdropping Poems

ivy creeps on house
spy in disguise as a plant
eavesdropping clinger...

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Eavesdropping, not smart
A pile builds in the garden
The knife nicked his heart...

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heads bent
three doves on phone line....
eavesdropping  ...

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Beside the wall's ears
Eavesdropping heart feels alone
Tears in misty moss

-11.12.2020 Chattogram...

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... woodpeckers silent,

        woods mute, overheard my thought,

        eavesdropping I'm caught......

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The title for my collected literary works is...

Eavesdropping On The Everlasting... Justin A. Bordner 2022...

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birdwatching
binoculars in hand
fowl eavesdropping



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on September 7, 2018...

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As Mom and Dad fight,
sad Kate listens out of sight...
She's a 6-year old.



Date written: 04/08/2020...

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Angry raised voices fall
Weeping then silence
Screams of intimacy
Making up from a fight


Inspired by: http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=214784...

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Two, alone. With all of night's
Glitter-veil now lifted
On each of their probing, deep;
Life's. Illuminated!

Nudged up closer who, for love
Eavesdropping, when heard I:
"Behind the same, the same God
Reflected in our eye!"...

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He is a man, so he could be dangerous.
This statement jerks at my brain.
Does this mean women cannot be dangerous?
Does it mean a grizzly bear is not dangerous?
Has every man she has ever met been dangerous?
I walk quickly past her, pretending I am not eavesdropping....

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I want your husband she told me.
So, I laughed and said, “come and get him.”
There is loud laughter.
Totally curious, I have to walk past their booth now
To see what these women look like
 I really want to sit down with them to figure out which voice
goes with whom....

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Where can I go when there's no breath around
Even that
Can not compare to sound 
Leaving all my pictures on the wall
In my hat...
The garbage on the ground 

How about the time you heard my sound 
Eavesdropping from ears to hurt the wound
Even though my heart shall become flat
Know I see you when you look around...

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Ear against a crack in the door, 
“I’m leaving, I don’t love you anymore”
“Please don’t go, I’ll try my best”
I guess the flame has been repressed.
She scurried, hearing the doorknob turn,
Hoping he’s lying, her stomach churns.
One last look, their eyes lock in place
No goodbyes will be spoken,
No more happy face....

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Fragments of floating silver waltzes
in Milky Way, meandering nascent dreams. 
Ethereal dark canopy of a wistful night
eavesdropping on silent whispers of stars.
Sprinkled dust of pearls on wings of cloud
their lovestory glimmering in staccato light.




17th June 2020


Sponsor	nette onclaud
Contest Name	STARDUST...

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Mortal and pestle contesting
Dogs wagging
Girls chi chatting
The moon moaning
The night i is as cold as hell
Sweat eavesdropping from Mother's nerves
We the parasite take our queue
The black pot roars
The aroma whispers
As the pot alighted from the furnace
A mountain stood on my nose
The struggle began 
Mouths sweating
Okra swelling....

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The cousins' fiddle duet plays  Danny Boy
and summons the memory of a Danny dead 40 years.

Aunt looks to see if Uncle will share her memory
of their momentary boy,

But he is busy sharing photos of other memories
and does not hear.


Note: My cousin Danny died when he was just a toddler and I never knew him....

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See night in his suit of gray,
bending low to kiss the day.
She's so modest, timid, shy,
that's her blush in the Western sky.

Deepening it lingers there
as peeping stars come out to stare.
But even they cannot persuade
night to raise his pulled down shade.
______________________________

For any old poem contest #6
by SKAT A
written sometime in 2014...

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A memory climbed out of the dark,
  as I listened to the words of a new love song

Taking me back to where feelings were strong,
  beyond the flashbacks of a long frozen dream

Remembering again, a last ember still burns,
  and its light rewarms my heart

Where hidden deep in its shadows I see your face
  —as the past is born again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2017)...

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And  the generalists knew one better
preaching to the converted
They have risen above their parapet
Industrious said the observer
as the moon made a foray
anywhere else

Have you seen the sun rise 
Repeating in its perpetuality
Then blow the burgles
for news to come back in my time, 
eavesdropping like elf's ears
as the specialists made their first foray
under dawns reign...

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EAVESDROPPING

    Eavesdropping has own charm
     so long it does no harm,
     just for frolic and fun,
     of course, disturbing none.
    
     It may be dangerous
     turning crude scandalous.
     An offence to mention
     when in bad intention.
    
    Eavesdropping: Wrong habit
    Task of a cold culprit.

    12/30/19

    'listening in' Contest by Julia Yard...

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You’re Secret is Safe
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015

None know the secrets of our Grandfather clock
It stands mostly quiet, in its niche,
In our great room;

As if camouflaged, it observes all goings on, 
While eavesdropping on every conversation;

It never betrays any secrets, and most times,
Won’t give you the time of day,
And be truthful about it.
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I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
~Mickey Newberry

compartments
          and partitions
in through daydreams
          out through nightmares
prescriptions and non
          null and into the void
of expansion 
          spirit and soul
confined then not
          I talk to God
while the Devil
          is eavesdropping 
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As the sun, came glinting through the pines,
I hearkened, to euphonies, the wind was playing.
While eavesdropping, from within my confines, 
I pondered what message it might be conveying.

As I yawned, stretched and opened the blinds,
I returned to the thoughts previously weighing.
Now, my wall exhibited, Levolor sketched designs,
I hope that you’ve seen what I’ve tried portraying.
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You consumed me whole,
unshackling secrets
stitched close to me,
eavesdropping on
each whispering word of
my muted confessions

Your carmine lips
relish my
rugged refrain,
your touch,
a lustful lavender caress
blossoming like
spring tendrils,
drenched in
the nectar,
an ambrosiac conflagation

I sway
back and forth
on the vines of lust
as the Eden-esque fruit,
the vinicultural life
of your sipped wine...

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