Best Cosseted Poems

delicate lace linked by crochet
labyrinthine stitches a doily a day

counted by repetitious candlelight
motherly hands of preponderant foresight

twisting and surrender of silent threads
tucking each one into...

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SERENITY

Wash me with glory’s waterfall and evergreen.
Jehovah-Rapha recharge the endorphins.*
The pine needles tickle my nose with scent.
The swoosh of skirted cascade in forest serene.

The polished...

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There once was a lady of Celtic descent
Who cosseted canines wherever she went.
The birds in her garden would sing forth her praise,
And stray cats salute...

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enjoy the reed
now displayed as a satisfactory deed.
*          *       ...

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They are vain, quarrelsome men
Bloated, opinionated,
Untidy, men cosseted 
By the academic life,
The literary life—smug,
Tell you what authors are in
Or out. They know best—of course....

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Subtitled: A Quiz Sic Hull Emotionally Test Ting Senior Event
 
Valedictorian treads across makeshift platform 
   i.e. most likely auditorium stage
marked by pronounced...

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VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

From the bridge, track the ghosts of line, goods yard, Old Town Station 
Where we lingered and noted the numbers of each...

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OLD TOWN ELEGY
  
The bridge still spans the road - with what design?
The rail that once crossed Ridgeway and vale to the sea
Erased and...

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The need to be cosseted from reality 
numbs our minds 
creating a majority 
of underdeveloped scared 
squares. 
boastful, ignorant belittlers 
blur the lines between reality...

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Mistletoe

From Christmas Eve to Christmas Eve
Mistletoe magic plays its parts.
Sticky berries.  Evergreen leaves.
Decorate homes and capture hearts.

Cosseted by fresh hanging twigs.
Each house from fire...

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Easy Practitioners of Another Voodoo

While I was counting the cost of steak
And while depressed about her over weight
He was counting grains of rice
She was forced...

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MARCH LETS GO

On my knees, cosseted by blue jeans,
I tender the soil with magic beans.
March lets go of the Winter’s lien.
Clearing snow, dusting of royal...

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SLEEPING BEAUTY AWAKENS TO FATE

Beauty shrouds its sovereign brilliance under extremes
The oppressive Black Forest of fairy tale dreams

Buried far below the palatial sunrise
Dressed in farmer’s...

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erupting clouds

brown soil erupts with till.
more or less still, with seed.
growing pains burst ground,
cosseted by umbrella stem.
seeds of dandelion spread,
waving kisses as they spin.
sunflower magnifies...

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Who decides what historical events adorn
textbooks students read,
     hence a starry notion born
grew up while

     this lumpenproletariat...

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