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Premium MemberOde to Autumn

...How spectacular your crisp, cold colors,
Autumn dear, your bright & brilliant hues.

The fruition of success & failure, previous;
Culminated countenance of consequence.

Bold can be...
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Categories: coddled, autumn,
Form: Ode

You can't forget what you can't destroy

...Rip the sheets of comfort of their privileged bodies
Let the cold hit their skin
To feel the harsh reality of life 
Fed with safety and security
No longer will they be coddled by warmth
Whitenes...
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Categories: coddled, discrimination, evil, political, power,
Form: Free verse



Jofradamus can see the future

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Oi Oi ..saveloy…caps do doff..bless Joffy boy…with injury woes and blows…

From the off some did scoff…Joff can no longer bowl for toffee…clearly not really…

Not being coy but some of those pr...
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Categories: coddled, sports,
Form: Free verse

Why Not Me

...Why not me, i always asks,  
In shadows where the silence basks,  
When sickness came, I felt the chill,  
While soup and love were his to fill.  

Mom turned her back, her heart a stone,  
As ...
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Categories: coddled, brother, childhood, confusion, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Harvest

...Time to harvest the blossom of your dream
have you tenderly coddled yesterday's seed
time is the seductive companion of wisdom
the dream of time is to pick up Godspeed.
You've entered the golden ...
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Categories: coddled, life,
Form: Rhyme



Temptation

...Flames that ignites
bright red at its core,
ravenous hunger linger
overwhelmed by its
hot desire and through 
the night it burns,

its visible heat scorches
the skin of its next victim,
leav...
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Categories: coddled, black love, desire, fire,
Form: Free verse

To Love When

...Love is alike a whisper among the deaf and a light among the blind. Many have claimed to understand it and many have claim to be apart of it but alike religion, they all seem to fall short of scriptu...
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Categories: coddled, beautiful, bereavement, caregiving, feelings,
Form: Free verse

HOME DOES NOT DIE

...HOME DOES NOT DIE
By: Majed Dodeen
I read in her enchanting eyes what a pretty delicate and sensitive poet reads in the eyes of an innocent child.
Her image is imprinted in the depths of my heart ...
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Categories: coddled, fate, freedom, home, success,
Form: Free verse

Unitarian Church returnee

...Unitarian Church returnee

After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional 
almost three months 
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted ...
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Categories: coddled, 3rd grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLife Raft in Amber

...When brother was fading away
black chimes signaled for the demons to play
They attacked all sides of the hobbled mind
Treating the heart like an orphaned marble
They were rabid and had brackish i...
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Categories: coddled, brother, god,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGentle Little Lamb

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   Shaking her wet ears, uncertain 
   How her purpose may be best served
   Stagger concealed in immersion
   Shown the pasture that she deserved

   
   Frolicking safely within a flock
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Categories: coddled, africa, analogy, animal, destiny,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFour is Super Confident

...We coddled and coaxed
Cajoled and cuddled
Caressed and calmed
Candy would not budge

We encouraged and enthused
Attempted to inspire and excite
Candy smiled
But refused to comply

We teased...
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Categories: coddled, age,
Form: Free verse

THREE MINUTES TO DONE

...THREE MINUTES TO DONE

Do I first bring water to boiling point
To time the egg from that moment on
Or from cold, to then be soft not hard
That one might be tempted to discard
But plonked in a c...
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Categories: coddled, food, time,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Ocean is a Wild Beast

...The ocean is a wild beast that I approach cautiously.
I submit to its undertow. It makes me laugh expansively.
I dive in, never turn my back, never quite relaxing.
It wants to rush at me, my ir...
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Categories: coddled, sea,
Form: Other

Only Child

...Narcissistic little freak –
The world isn’t meant to like you
There’ll be many parties
Where nobody invites you

Dance around with Mommy,
Dance your TikTok video
Hope you’ve got your bubble-wr...
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Categories: coddled, child, humor, hyperbole,
Form: Lyric

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