Au Contraire
...Mary was ten and she adored flowers, and she had three pretty sisters;
But, she never could make a garden grow; like stars, losing jade glitter.
Sisters Sarah, Martha and Alice spoiled Ma...
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Categories:
cockle, beauty, color, garden, love,
Form: Couplet
Mary, Mary, Not Quite
...The oldest version dates from Tom Thumbs' 1744 songbook. Modern versions keeping with times, caused 'Mistress' to go dark. 'Cockle' is a seashell.
Mistress Mary sang like canary,
When they surrou...
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Categories:
cockle, allusion, analogy, appreciation, children,
Form: Rhyme
Road Splits
...New encounters
goodbye tears
life is less
like turns
and twists
more like
roads that join
and split
till all roads
finally meet
to forever
in two split
if God's light
is kept alit
r...
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Categories:
cockle, life,
Form: Free verse
Influencers
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Influencers
Miracle Man
8/7/2023
Each one is an influencer every day,
either with a positive or negative slant.
By the things we do or words we say,
We influence others and ideas im...
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Categories:
cockle, imagery, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
Quahog Legacy Unveiled
...Written: June 29, 2023
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Cockle, two hooves clung over a hundred brothers.
You discovered unmatched comfort such as no othe...
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Categories:
cockle, analogy, appreciation, beauty, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Happy-Time Fun Nursery Rhyme
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Tom Cat with his fiddle
stood on a wall
and played his fine song
to bring one and all
Together to dance
to his Meow tune
beneath the full Sun
along with Half Moon
Hen Cockle, Doo Roo...
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Categories:
cockle, adventure, animal, dance, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Enduring a Monsoon
...I was awakened by the sounds of clatters and thumps
as a whoosh of breeze made my window blinds thud.
I rose with a groan and felt the rise of goose bumps...
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Categories:
cockle, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Starry Eyed Cloud of Surreal Angels
...Utmost nadir of despair found
this atheist craning his neck skyward
hearing resplendent August orchestra
today June 10th, 2022
choral symphony may sound absurd,
but...mine supreme auditory sense...
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Categories:
cockle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Haeccity Heard
...Hastily stretched, crackled urgent ocean edge relents
Ashamed attempt to escape rejoins campaign of mass
Furtive dig below propels conspirator spasm, next next
Murders brash bouys, cranky spa cham...
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Categories:
cockle, analogy, beauty, change, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
A Cross To Bear
..."For those who bear stoically the cross put on their shoulders by others, the cross turns into a crown" - by the Poet
she still smiled,
even when she knew,
life looped over her,
like a hangman...
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Categories:
cockle, angst, depression, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Dreaning of Yellow Poppy Fields
...DREAMING OF YELLOW POPPY FIELDS
Soft among the yellow poppy fields,
I clung to clocks of Dandelions,
Driven by my seeds of youth.
Breathless in their grace,
They gather all, rolling in the sum...
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Categories:
cockle, metaphor, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Shoreline Art
...A crinkled shore on the Upper Peninsula.
We are hunting Golden Eagles.
Cameras fully loaded.
You find a small stone,
on it, a crimp and cockle
of wind and waves
has rucked an impression
of a...
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Categories:
cockle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mother Love
...The second, ten years later,
caught her body less prepared.
Had finger nails been more pared her clench
might well have spared his palms
so close to drawing blood.
Her pelvis did not dila...
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Categories:
cockle, birth, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Understanding Crinkles
...On its surface a crimp and cockle
of a purling tide have rucked an impression
on a stone.
We are here to find Eagles
but the sky is too low and the wind too high.
You show the image on the sto...
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Categories:
cockle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Scavenger Hunt
...scavenger hunt
sandy summer beach
welcomes a scavenger hunt ~
hot sand samba dance
lacy edged scallops
rippled shells like wind kissed surf ~
trim tidal ball gowns
fallen stars – starf...
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Categories:
cockle, ocean, summer,
Form: Haiku
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