Ode 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
The 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
Life 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
Gentle 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
Four 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
The 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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