Best Cocoa Poems

It’s been a while since the Christmas of my youth.
Some things it seems have gone away -
Cookie cutters, hot cocoa, and an angel
are three not with me today.

Yes, Mama would get her cookie cutters out
How I loved to help make the dough.
We’d bake, then frost...

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COOKIE CUTTERS, HOT COCOA, AND AN ANGEL

When I was small, with curly hair
Mama would pull up a dining chair
She'd stand me there beside her
As she rolled out cookie dough

And gently guide me through the steps
For the cookies she would bake
Letting me use the cookie cutters
Carefully,...

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calm, captivating
                   chivalrous, compassionate 
                   colorful, caring


    
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Four palms, one taller, the other three measure the same.
Heavily anchored in sand, all are vertical climbers of this azure sky.
Eight new fronds per palm, the older ones neatly trimmed by man.
No cocoanuts anywhere to be seen, their hazard great, if allowed to fall.
Growing 40-50...

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Hot cocoa is my beverage of choice.
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The wind chills the earth
and i am chilled to the bone
in the winter sun...

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the weather was below zero 
all the windows covered in snow 

the year was nineteen sixty three
everyone gathered around in wait for me

mom's belly was full and oh so tight
small cousins peeked pushed and began to fight

an aunt said you kids please leave the room
mom's...

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cocoa brown acorns
wait patiently chortling...
whoops man down...

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Saint Valentine, supposed,
ushering forth with love;
your tender anniversary with a whip.

A chocolate kiss, with calloused hands,
assembled;
vacant, listless eyes without;
...neither seeing nor feeling love.

Every drop of corn syrup, unfed,
corpulent and fetished;
whose essence lingers 'pon the lips.

Every drop of ebony perfum, 'pon breath;
staining the love of virtue...

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I made hot cocoa
I told mother I made tea
This; and other lies...

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Cocoa. Hot chocolate is so..............your skin.
Bred with vanilla. Sired kids' colors in between. Broad spectrum of brown.
Vanilla to pecan. Conversations between colorstruck year round.
Family gatherings often joyous. The food is delicious. Events supreme extravagance.
Cocoa. Hot chocolate. Milk and sugar. So dark. Flesh. Not a drink....

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I guess it’s not a giant revelation to most people when I say we are all
So many different things at once.  Constantly changing but remaining the same,
 As we do this metamorphosis, we travel along in this invisible cocoon .
Clumsy and blinded by our...

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I thought I saw Santa flying and landing right on my roof
Then someone said, it can’t be true, so I needed proof
He was there, I swear, then suddenly he went ‘poof’
Even my dog saw him as she ran to the window, woof!
All I could see...

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I live in a vat of cocoa butter
      I’m so afraid of getting old
The wrinkly skin, it makes me shudder
     Want cocoa butter skin, let the truth be told

I sleep in a bed that’s made of...

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COCOA

This is me
Once the pride
Of your fathers
I gave them 
Smiles
Yes I gave them smiles
Plant me you .
I do not
Discriminate
Plant me and
I will grow
You love 
Eating me 
As chocolate
Rub me as body lotion
Plant me 
I will make 
You rich....

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