Best Cajoles Poems

In Ordinary Cups

The blades of winter grind into the ice
like blood on a bitten lip
two lovers spin and twirl
The days pass from teacup to teacup
in...

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"Snowflakes Melting before the Diadem"

Winter is coming
and what then?
the dreams frozen 
snowflakes falling
we succomb 
tongues out waiting 
for manna, 
pills swallowed
for the diadem
needles of pine
instead...

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PARALLEL AUTUMN SURPRISES


A ferris wheel of no return, she stood with rosy cheeks so fair; both day and night just wide rocky bridges of light...

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WATER FINGERS CARESS


Crystal water fingers caress 
stony marsh-grassy lands
its waves cajoles leaving fine pearls
of sea gifts: the bed sands

Above... still azure clouds look out,
running waves...

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‘In her eyes, fathomless the pool of sadness’

There’s a sorrow she won’t let go
A melancholy in her that’s taken residence 
She welcomes it and nurtures...

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A cartridge filled with a horde of shackled emotions, am I,
Trifle feelings loiter within me, until she elicits them out,
Wizened by time, she knows that...

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We are dishwashers and bill payers, we have day jobs and night jobs.
Some of us are retired, I am not, because I know too many...

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Egocentric, engaged in games of one-upmanship
I developed a jaundiced and judgmental eye
Over time, losing over mind-body my grip

Belied expectations oft made heart sigh
My reflex response...

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There’s something about a sonnet that grips
our heart, that cajoles our mind to be still,
even as a song appears on our lips,
of its own accord,...

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pages of a book
printed, written in all fonts
characters, small or bold, tweet
stories of the world 
sketches, images of sorts
facades of all, not cajoles

phases of a...

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This is the story of two lonely souls....
Who found each other, without cajoles...
Neither had ever had a mate....
Yet Jack and Gill decided to date.....
They felt...

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Words run away
No rhymes now;
Rest in jest

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Love knows the way
Faith anchors hope;
Peace sums joy

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Come what may
Peace of mind stays;
Style knows the way

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Touch of good earth
Orchard...

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Why Poetry Must be Read Aloud

The poet caresses the purity of the
blank white page, seduces it, whispers
to it, teases and cajoles, coaxing
from the emptiness a...

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Ripples in Space

Entwined with universal mind
Aligned with pulsations of love
Yet what soul seeks, we’re yet to find
Void and form not quite hand in glove

Will of...

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Ago I watched a woman coax
A fellow back from death.
Sand clung to the drowned
Man's shoulder, briny fluid
Dripped from clustered hair
Breath pushed lung to throat

In that...

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