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Cockerels Poems - Poems about Cockerels

Fall Forms
...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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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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Categories: cockerels, day, heaven, sun, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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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Categories: cockerels, conflict, culture, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: cockerels, bird, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member 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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Categories: cockerels, easter, muse, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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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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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Categories: cockerels, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: cockerels, destiny, imagery, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: cockerels, love, mother, poverty,
Form: Quatrain
A Cock Is a Cock
...among hens among cockerels even if hens rebel......

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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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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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Categories: cockerels, children, family, introspection, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: cockerels, social,
Form: Narrative

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