Short Misreading Poems

"You're my sweetheart",
Sincerely thought I.
Misreading your cruel art,
I was ready for you to die.
What a well-planned honey trap!
In my face, it was a deadly slap!!



Bite Size Poem no18 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
Date: 24.08.2021...

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OVERNIGHT

beautiful 
past tense
no language
living our
limited lives
misreading 
words and feelings 
personally
refined

so let’s bed down 
in a drawer 
overnight laughing 
hysterically
at the start
of this new year

exiled in candle-lights
warm teardrop flames



© Kim van Breda—31 December 2015...

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Lucifer laughs
gloating about the pandemic
loving our anguish

Keeping us apart
trying our patience
miscommunication and misunderstandings 

Reveling in our sorrow 
And our social distancing
Lucifer thinks he is winning

Not understanding our resiliency
Underestimating our spiritual prowess
Not seeing our faith, misreading the power of prayer...

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MISREADING LOVE'S MESSAGES 

                    Hunted through the eye attacking colored crowd of din--
                    Sorted through the stone cold features --face by face--
                    Fought the fear that he’d read love’s message wrong again;

                    Joy-stunned
                    He glimpsed the boot clad foot that led her from the train….

rev
June 12, 2013...

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