Dazed
...Charlie’s Angels,
Starsky and Hutch,
Welcome Back Cotter,
The Brady Bunch.
I think I watched TV too much!
Columbo,
The Partridge Family,
Lucille Ball,
I must confess I viewed them ...
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Categories:
cotter, growing up, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Father
...Some saw him as a gifted author
Others aware but didn't bear to bother
He only cared to be there unlike his father
At first it was the worst he started to Pother
Even the air wasn't fair
For t...
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Categories:
cotter, child, evil, family, father,
Form: Rhyme
Wake
...Yawning eyes, a window to my soul
Breathless whys, that follow into my eye-hole
Gradually fading into the mirror
Hurried air lifted me nearer
There I soar over a continuum of water
Dovetailed an...
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Categories:
cotter, appreciation, beautiful, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Scaling the Sliding Scale
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I weigh in at live energy
learning in life to live the way
the way like the wind
resting in the nurturing stars
concocting a breathtaking blend
of forgiveness' smiles eroding the pas...
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Categories:
cotter, beauty, birth, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Governers Charade
...tell all officers stand to attention
governors on the way
the great old bull sullivan
is doin the rounds himself today
put down that mornin paper
put them feet back on the floor
you dont want to be h...
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Categories:
cotter, satire,
Form: Free verse
Unleash From Within
...18th & 19th February 2012
Weary, drained spent, shattered,
Deep inside, many of us are spattered & battered.
Oddled once joyous hearts now beat all tattered,
Happiness to the heart is w...
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Categories:
cotter, faith, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Biography (The Introduction)
...Strip me bare like the land
Sacred and unprotected
That you come to claw and tear
To hold its sparkle
In the ostentation of your hand
For man is more than spectacle
And I am more than
Just a ...
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Categories:
cotter, art, faith, history, lifeme,
Form: Free verse
The Road (Swallowed David)
...A scorching ride
In an amber dream
All care for caution escapes the mind
Vicious force guiding
Brutal frailty
No hope to escape
The perils of chance
A swerve and a skid
Unyielding barrier
Im...
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Categories:
cotter, death, family, loss, sympathy
Form: Elegy