Short Eiderdown Poems

you cover me like
eiderdown when
the rain comes

You lock the shutters on
menace that 
displaces rationale

I can close my eyes and
know you
will stay...

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Limerick : Once Hillbilly Bumpkin came to town

Once Hillbilly Bumpkin came to town
Citizens mocked this no-make-up clown
She hitched ride on red bus
To Piqued-Silly-Circus
And there let drop (her) feathered eiderdown.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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Stars wrapped in eiderdown sky 
between cloud ruffles peering,
scintillatingly displayed celestial ornaments 
on which craving souls suspend heart wishes, 
yearning satisfaction 
as ardently as star worlds shine.

Copyright, May 8, 2022
Bite Size Poem No. 43...

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P ropped up on my pillows
I n the attic room,
T inkling sounds of
T he soft rain on glass
E ngulfs me in the peaceful
R etreat that is my boudoir.

P laying a soothing tune.
A llowing me to drift off
T o dreamworld again.
T reasured extra hours
E nveloped in eiderdown.
R eveling in rainy days. 


05/03/2017...

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down under, eider ducks can claim
for it in their thousands were slain
to keep us all warm
their bodies torn
that's how the eiderdown was named
~~~~~~~~~~~

Inspired by, not in Eve Roper's limerick contest, 'Down Under World', please check the link https://www.poetrysoup.com/poetry/contests/upside_down_world__limericks_only_11050...

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It's perfectly true, there's a blue kangaroo,
    Where an emu once flew, upside-down.
    There's even a lion, that's made of pig iron,
    While the polar bears fur's eiderdown.
    With a tiny sardine, of green plasticine,
    It's where cuckoos spring out of swiss clocks.
    Whatever it seems, they're not idle dreams,
    They're all playthings, in my little toy box.

    31/ 1/ 2018....

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Humbling foliage, sprinkled in a bed
A quiltlike pattern, reflecting heaven’s eiderdown,
In notes, like a musician playing out the ballad
Restoring hope in pieces - in precious leaves,
Stems resolving to color the heart in reprieve
Heterogeneous knowledge in the awing power of leaves and stems,
Plants who live to silence every darkness – hushing
Even the pain and fear, awakening inspirations so rich and dear

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To drink a wine that tastes of orange blossom smell
To sip and dream of groves we've driven through
to gaze thru hoary rime of wintry windows
dreaming of the swaying palms on sunny keys
shiver starry skies in winter's icy winds
The moon so pale with cold is such a tease
adrift in frozen emptiness of silent seas
I close my eyes to see a sunny beach
and hear the steady beat of roaring surf
slipping under sheets of eiderdown
as Morpheus tends the beach umbrella...

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I'd rock you in the crook of my arm until you fell asleep 
And read to you a fairy tale about lambs and goats and sheep
And when you stepped off into dream I'd place you on a bed 
Of eiderdown, and cover you and kiss you on the head
A kiss so tender you wouldn't know I'd even placed it there
And when you woke perfume from orchids would fill the bedroom air
Then I would sit down at your feet, guitar and scores in hand
And play for you sweet melodies until you slept again...

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