Long Cosseted Poems

Subtitled: A Quiz Sic Hull Emotionally Test Ting Senior Event
 
Valedictorian treads across makeshift platform 
   i.e. most likely auditorium stage
marked by pronounced hushed audience, 
   who exude a collective sigh...

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enjoy the reed
now displayed as a satisfactory deed.
*          *          *       ...

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While Shuttered Up Inside... ©ozy
Snug Air Conditioned Demesne...

Analogous to my boyhood
     cosseted and bereft, I assay
to poetically elucidate how majority
     of mine years found me
  ...

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Who decides what historical events adorn
textbooks students read,
     hence a starry notion born
grew up while

     this lumpenproletariat day dreaming,
     Asian aw shucks husky
...

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Easy Practitioners of Another Voodoo

While I was counting the cost of steak
And while depressed about her over weight
He was counting grains of rice
She was forced into a life of vice

And while the self righteous contemplate
Judgement...

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OLD TOWN ELEGY
  
The bridge still spans the road - with what design?
The rail that once crossed Ridgeway and vale to the sea
Erased and gone, with scarce residual sign
And barely more trace than near...

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VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

From the bridge, track the ghosts of line, goods yard, Old Town Station 
Where we lingered and noted the numbers of each passing train
Web of steel and of steam entwined village and...

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the topped her desire with a cherry on the cake

icing sugar crux of the biscuit cusp of pure delight

candles had outgrown the sweet surface of pastry

but she cherished her life just the same evermore

tasted age...

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lest we forget angels
lifting up
the fallen child,
the one within
the rocking carriage.
thumb-sucker delicacies,
in fetal position,
cosseted by wings
of a fan, blowing
away the neonatal blanket.
lest we forget angels
just out of reach,
palms up,
waiting for baby steps.
down on your knees,
back...

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Entertained by flickers on a screen, cosseted between giants. Suited with slicked-back raven hair, snow-white starched shirt, an innocent tie.

Mother smiles at his sky-blue eyes. Father pats his shoulder, “Good show!”
The nightingale, high in spirits....

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erupting clouds

brown soil erupts with till.
more or less still, with seed.
growing pains burst ground,
cosseted by umbrella stem.
seeds of dandelion spread,
waving kisses as they spin.
sunflower magnifies in sky…
till
      seed
  ...

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Mistletoe

From Christmas Eve to Christmas Eve
Mistletoe magic plays its parts.
Sticky berries.  Evergreen leaves.
Decorate homes and capture hearts.

Cosseted by fresh hanging twigs.
Each house from fire protected.
The passionate young dance cute jigs.
And celebrate love connected.

Parasitic plant?...

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STORM

the clash
                 the flash

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of lightening and thunder

her tone
           ...

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SERENITY

Wash me with glory’s waterfall and evergreen.
Jehovah-Rapha recharge the endorphins.*
The pine needles tickle my nose with scent.
The swoosh of skirted cascade in forest serene.

The polished rocks under bare feet, the flow
of cool stream that caresses...

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MARCH LETS GO

On my knees, cosseted by blue jeans,
I tender the soil with magic beans.
March lets go of the Winter’s lien.
Clearing snow, dusting of royal green.

O the earth is suddenly Spring clean.
though stressed with Adam’s...

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SLEEPING BEAUTY AWAKENS TO FATE

Beauty shrouds its sovereign brilliance under extremes
The oppressive Black Forest of fairy tale dreams

Buried far below the palatial sunrise
Dressed in farmer’s jeans, burrs in golden nest
An orphaned princess plays, regality suppressed
Godmothers...

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BALCONY

Leaning over deep and dark,
dreaming far from land.
Sound waves cure my heart.
hourglass harbors shore’s sand.

The sea sparkles with pirate’s gold,
true treasure cosseted down under.
Winsome whales and shark eyes cold,
i glory in God’s ocean of wonder.

I...

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THE BRIDE TO HER FUTURE GROOM

My heart quick-beats with Venus-strength,
the moon’s deep glow that shines with you.
Your love has lassoed the moon’s flow.
Its brightness, brings good tidings, to my soul.
I live to lift the corners...

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The only reason for time
is so that everything
doesn’t happen at once

Albert Einstein

TIME IS ELEMENTARY

swatches of bands, smart
time is elementary;
strapped snug, cosseted
on a small-pale wrist.

coffee fumes and coal
chugging on life’s track.
cuckoo bird on half
and every hour...

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delicate lace linked by crochet
labyrinthine stitches a doily a day

counted by repetitious candlelight
motherly hands of preponderant foresight

twisting and surrender of silent threads
tucking each one into intricate spreads

lovingly lace reflects persistence of face
a warm cosseted Victorian...

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Photostory Number One

cosseted, between
his sister and brother,
the infant’s eyes idolize
their playfulness ~
his sibling’s hands
in flight, peacefully glide,
swooshing
in mid air ~
warmly entertaining.
the arching wings
over him, remind
his mind
of cherubim.
a jewel, treasured
in his family nest.
blessed trove
of happiness.
duly, the...

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Little Lillian lost us 
two, a widower of warmth,
we’ve been waiting here….patiently,
for wherever has she gone?
 Night’s airing scary notions,
her hands beaten bare,
we cosseted,
but days before,
in vermillion thread.
 Mildly mucky mittens,
almost good as new, ...

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LANGUAGE OR THE KISS

But my bee, with stinger intact,
slapped me with his forked tongue abuse.
My flesh still warm, aching and sacked.
I strike matches over red lips.
Stupidly I beg sweet-sour sips.
I wear dueling masks, with two...

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