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The Other Pillow

by The QuillOak Editors

1I sleep on my side of the bed

2as if you might come in at two,

3the way you do when flights are late.

4I leave your towel out for you.

5It's foolish. You're a thousand miles

6and eleven days away.

7But love keeps house the way it likes,

8and this is how it likes to stay.

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Quick facts

Poem
The Other Pillow
Poet
The QuillOak Editors
Length
8 lines
Form
Rhyming Poems, Lyric Poem
Themes
Love, For Her, Missing You

Craft notes

How this poem works

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Shape
8 lines · 2 quatrains
End rhyme
ABCB in every stanza — ballad rhyme — only lines 2 and 4 chime.
Line length
Mostly 8-syllable lines (tetrameter length).
The poem’s silhouette — approximate syllables per line, measured from the text above. Even bars mean a measured line; ragged bars mean the poem sets its own widths.

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The QuillOak Editorstoday
Source record
QuillOak originalThe Other Pillow, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
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Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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Not recorded in the imported source
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SHA-256 420a509f21b284a9…
Editorial handling
Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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