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Cockerels Poems - Poems about Cockerels
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...Allusions lead to absence? Believe it, sir and ma'am. Hold the door? Then get ye hence? Why the constant slam? Truth be told, the terror tells. Tollbooth of the dead. Nebula, will-o-the-wells......
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Chris Jensen
Categories:
cockerels,
cheer up,
Form:
Rhyme
Dawn
...Memories of death and dark eminence The long sleep, lingering last enemy The coldest, lifeless, breathless silence Ensues and consumes an eternity. But hark, then slowly, after sightless sighs T......
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Aiziel Aiziel
Categories:
cockerels,
day, heaven, sun, time,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Kitchen with Merope
... I once made a man see stars, read the state of his synthetic, wrinkled suit back to him, I watched as it melted. Served him the world on a mirror— Cracker Barrel plate of desire, he said. ......
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Jaymee Thomas
Categories:
cockerels,
conflict, culture, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
An Omelette Made For Two
...I had a tasty cock-a-doodle stew Now I crow at dawn as cockerels do I pulled a sweet hen And now and again We dine on an omelette made for two.......
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Beryl Edmonds
Categories:
cockerels,
bird, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Blueprint
... blueprint To have the innocence again, not abused nor denied to see with the eyes of a child the beauty that could be in it all - what we lost, through bit......
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Lady Labyrinth
Categories:
cockerels,
easter, muse, peace,
Form:
Free verse
The Crack That Quacked
...[In the spirit of ‘Old Macdonald’, I envisage a class full of kids filling the space between stanzas with moo’s, quacks and dings etc as appropriate. Of course if you’re in charge of a roo......
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Terry Flood
Categories:
cockerels,
animal, farm, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Mornings
...Voices scream like cockerels' within the farm of my mind Awake again. should I even bother opening my eyes? Maybe if I dont, the day wont have to start. I roll out of bed into consciousness. Co......
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Thomas Newman
Categories:
cockerels,
mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Chicken Dinner
...A farmer fancied some chicken for dinner A fat cockerel he spied sure was a winner He sharpened his knife To end cockerels life Cockerel wished that he'd been a bit thinner. Inspired by Ja......
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Tom Cunningham
Categories:
cockerels,
food, funny,
Form:
Limerick
The Rising Sun
...the rising sun walks quietly in sky then lowers her lips down whispers to birds; “wake up” tells cockerels; “crow loudly” and intimates the lazy; “sleep on, time is unfair, sleep on” then the w......
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Categories:
cockerels,
destiny, imagery, sun,
Form:
Free verse
The Widow
... The widow What about the first rays of each dawn, Does recall her from the land of slumber? What does announce that the night’s gone To release her from each night’s cumber? Own......
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Sandison Jumbo
Categories:
cockerels,
love, mother, poverty,
Form:
Quatrain
A Cock Is a Cock
...among hens among cockerels even if hens rebel......
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
Categories:
cockerels,
power, satire,
Form:
Triolet
Sometimes In the Dark I See Snakes
...Must have been six when I encountered my first carnivorous reptile Walking up the up the hill with my brother I spotted what looked like a snake I'd heard of snakes, from my mother's tales I saw ......
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Njeri Hunjeri
Categories:
cockerels,
africa, culture, metaphor, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Chinese Moon
...I'm a Wood Cockerel a Metal Tiger's my mate, which meant for her birthday five years I did wait. Then twenty four years had passed on their way till joining of species on that happy day. T......
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Ivor Davies
Categories:
cockerels,
children, family, introspection, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Sleep In My Arms Lullaby
...Soft somnolent skies have ceased seething, for day’s nearly through, while winds echo whispering thoughts of returning to you and heavens throb, pulsing and bleeding in crimsons, once blue - the......
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Terry O'Leary
Categories:
cockerels,
love, Lullaby, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Watchdog
...I have seen them strutting like cockerels on podiums sweating like pigs in their ill-fitting suits words bubbling out of their snake forked tongues -democracy!- development!- unity! I have seen them......
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Regina Asinde
Categories:
cockerels,
social,
Form:
Narrative
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