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Cockles Poems - Poems about Cockles

Alive, Alive Oh!

...
The best thing about waking up
is not the coffee in our cup
warming the cockles
I'd impart
from the bottom of our heart
it's knowing we survived
to see another day arrived
no matter ...
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Categories: cockles, humorous, life, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFire

...watching a naked flame
with its flickering orange hues
warms the cockles of the heart
reminiscing of scenarios
that were never realised—
.
crickets rub their legs together
in a serenade
the f...
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Categories: cockles, nature,
Form: Other



Clam ah go-go

...Manila and Cockles
                         oh the steamers oh the steamers
                                    Ensis and Razors
                          Carpet shell clams and Ynghylch
       L...
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Categories: cockles, music,
Form: Ballade

Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

...Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

October seventeenth
nineteen hundred sixty one 
and October seventeenth
two thousand twenty four
represents, signals,
and traces ...
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Categories: cockles, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
ev...
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Categories: cockles, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse



Beautiful Agony III

...VII: Give me time...

Give me time, they say it will heal
But I don't want to forget the emotions I feel
But that's not what I'm worried about
Will the future be as happy, is what I doubt

The...
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Categories: cockles, emotions, feelings, heart, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme

Time bracketed between

...Time bracketed between

December first nineteen fifty nine and
December first two thousand twenty three
represents sixty six orbitz
one prized Earthling
named Amélie Beth Harris-McGeehan
compl...
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Categories: cockles, anniversary, appreciation, birthday, blessing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChildhood Treats

...With candyfloss and sticks of rock
Funfair rides made to shock.

Roller coaster big fast rides
All made to hide your eyes

The carousel and kiddies swings
Hoopla darts and all those things

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Categories: cockles, child,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYounger Life

...With candy floss and sticks of rock
Funfair rides made to shock 

Rollercoaster big fast rides 
All make you hid your eyes

The carousel and kiddies swings 
Hoop darts and all those things 

...
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Categories: cockles, child,
Form: Free verse

Sorry Appology 4 Being a Poet of Untold Misery

...Yes ,

I know I am a total and utter misery

And I never seem to be able to write
about anything other than doom and
gloom

And I also am aware and know that
it's no fun at all

And no one...
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Categories: cockles, depression,
Form: Free verse

The Turquoise Garden

...The Turquoise Garden

I dream of a magical garden
 That lays beneath a turquoise sea
It’s filled with seashells and cockles
And  sand the color of honeybees

The coral is the shade of pink  ro...
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Categories: cockles, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Glory To Thermodynamics In General

...Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a self sufficie...
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Categories: cockles, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme

Camp Bastion Nights

...I have listened to,your stories
Heard your talk on Human Rights
It’s warmed the cockles of my heart
On many a Bastion night.
The next time I come across, 
And I know I surely will
The indiscrim...
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Categories: cockles, abuse, betrayal, discrimination, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than

...Ah... tis nothing greater than...

malfunctioning heater 
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.

While scrolling thru 
poems crafted y...
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Categories: cockles, 12th grade, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBeachcomber Aroma

...We live by the sea, just we two, you and me
It offers us all that we need
From our heads to our toes, you make all of our clothes
From sea grass and sometimes sea weed

If our ocean provides it,...
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Categories: cockles, beach, humorous, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme

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