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Cockatrice
Cockatrice Poems - Poems about Cockatrice
MAESTRO
...MAESTRO He knew all along that it would be pressure Not just to conduct but bring out the best This brass band from a mining community Trying to keep it alive, almost their duty An almost for......
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Howard Osborne
Categories:
cockatrice,
confidence, music, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
Imagining Dragons
...For fun we played a mind-game, deciding to imagine a perfect dragon. She put together a plump pink dragon that blew rainbow bubbles and smelled of minty chewing gum. Mine was an iridescent c......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
cockatrice,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Head of Rooster Heart of Dragon
...He came into the barnyard and looked around Choosing a mate, who squawked and went underground Okay, he said. I’ll take that one, her sister. She screeched and fluttered, not happy with this miste......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
cockatrice,
myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Reluctant Dawn
... Hesitant awakening ... misty veil reveals another 24 sixty incremental uncertainty Retinal unwillingness Indecision guides each fretful, retrograde step Nocturnal blurred moral ......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
cockatrice,
age, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Right Hand Man
... Coulda been the Hand of the Lying King, if I didn’t tell the truth so much Coulda been Caesar’s right hand man, if I was kill willing to have a shogun trigger touch Coulda been......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
cockatrice,
allusion, history, power, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Belly Full of Lies
... Listen to what the snake charmers say: We be sulfuric scaly bellies, flicking poisonous tongues on the telly Idoly speak pure Orwellie — Down is up ... famine be a feast sup Tell ......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
cockatrice,
allegory, metaphor, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Burlesque
Serpentine Shadow Dance
... First you lemming sway to the left, then you ostrich sway to the right No straight talk movement is motive necessary on Leper Rabbit Foot Devil’s Night Now a-moral slug limbo very Di......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
cockatrice,
dance, spiritual, wisdom, word
Form:
Burlesque
Masks of the Season
...She took a photo of flowers She did not see the demon hiding there. He read the letters in the spaces between the words, Said it "Cald," or "Child?" He sees the spaces between the objects T......
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Matthew Wetter
Categories:
cockatrice,
magic,
Form:
Free verse
Magic Beans
...Magic Beans of Many Colors In a magical fairyland I reside, herons, toucans, rainbow lorikeets, peacock angels, hummingbirds, ostrich, even a cockatrice of magnificent colors that harmonize. ......
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Eve Roper
Categories:
cockatrice,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse