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Cajole Poems - Poems about Cajole

Premium MemberCoast of Maine

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A QUIET RETREAT: PART ONE
I retreated to the edge of Maine, 
To a beachside estate where thoughts remain 
Unsettled, swirling with cloud and tide 
A love poem’s seed buried deep inside. 
A h...
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Categories: cajole, allegory,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberFrom duality to singularity

...caged in form, memory erased
constrained by a fragmented mind
sensory inputs leave us dazed
to light of Self within heart blind

scriptures cajole us to explore
truth of being and so awake
by ...
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Categories: cajole, self, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain



Premium MemberDeath is a Point of No Return

..."Point of no Return"
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                                      Death is a "Point of no Return"

                           Labouring w...
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Categories: cajole, death, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme

A Genocide

...Kill the Boer, kill the farmer

A song sung in a stadium by thousands

Reverberating a chorus of spine-chilling fear

A call to incite hatred and violence

Tomorrow, we mourn - another farmer...
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Categories: cajole, africa, anxiety, death, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNuptials

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my dear, let's stroll
barefoot ...we laugh 'midst jeweled night
my dear, let's stroll...
old stars envious.   they cajole--
Maytime taps our feet, to delight
tender the waves, nu...
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Categories: cajole, engagement, may,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberMeeting the Leprechaun

...I am a merry me frisky fey a tiny man bragged to me
Please join me at my explosive enjoyable revelry
A jollity in his overzealous ambiance was brighter than I had ever seen
Magical merriment and m...
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Categories: cajole, march,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Undergrowth with Two Figures - Van Gogh

...I have the rhythm of a winding road
how do I consign myself to being confined
rows of poplar pillars prop
the rendezvous canopy beneath we meet
—I self-cajole on ooh-la-la afternoon 

yellow ey...
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Categories: cajole, angst, conflict, endurance, engagement,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAs Darkness Falls

...As darkness falls without, it also falls within;
where listless slumber slowly takes me by the hand,
leads me to a place where I relive every sin
while Lilith does foretell what fate for me is pla...
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Categories: cajole, fear,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberoutside my window

...Outside my window are voices that speak in the direction I am looking. They are trying to convince me of something. They argue and cajole, they laugh and admonish. Sometimes they threaten. They tell ...
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Categories: cajole, 9th grade, angst, anti
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberNew Beginning

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The cool air is warmed as a new day has begun. 
    The gold orb steals the night sky, smiles in atonement.
      She peeps over the horizon. Hail praise to the sun.
        I sit to play my ...
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Categories: cajole, day,
Form: Quintain (English)

May

...Eight Words 2 Poetry Contest -  Joseph May
Lilacs, Weary, Misty, Guitar, Cajole, Sigh, Slumber, Etching 
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Quote: “A man sees in the world what he c...
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Categories: cajole, betrayal,
Form: Rondeau

Premium MemberAs The Land Danced To The Moon

...Eight Words 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor-Joseph May


As the land danced to the moon
An artist took her hand in his
As he primed LILAC skies of June
His MISTY lover hung on this

The SLUMBER of ...
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Categories: cajole, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberEvening in Spring

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      Relaxing idle mood at evening,
      playing a sad tune on GUITAR.  
      Scent of LILACS flowing in Spring.
      Butterflies sleep, sipping nectar.
       
      On sundown enc...
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Categories: cajole, winter,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberFORTRESS THAT OFFERS REST

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Inside fortress* that offers rest
my weary soul breathes out blest sigh
lulled to slumber midst noisy pest 
while to the Saviour I draw nigh

My heart welcomes mus...
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Categories: cajole, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatern

So, I'm now fine

...So, I'm now fine with misty eyes,
Right from my slumber my heart cries,
With my weary face full of fears,
I still played guitar to my dears,
their smiles made me sigh in disguise.

My moans caj...
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Categories: cajole, fear, goodbye, joy, sad
Form: Rondeau

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