Mollycoddle Poems

Premium MemberHarry Horsman

...Harry Horsman's treatment was withdrawn over a week ago and they are making him comfortable, he is now in Hospice care.

Susan Ashly…we can only hope that Hospice care can keep Harry comfortable. M...
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Categories: mollycoddle, caregiving, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

The Missus Served Me High Test Coffee

...The missus served me high test coffee...

Ah... tis nothing more heavenly 
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesqu...
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Categories: mollycoddle, angel, appreciation, atheist, blessing,
Form: Free verse


Challenge

...Who Am I To You?

Am I just a stranger?
An online lover or a nobody 
That once who passes by 
In a lifetime of your stream ?

Maybe a poet?

A woman only good in sweet words.
Easily fooled ...
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Categories: mollycoddle, anxiety, art, care, crush,
Form: Rhyme

City Jump

...Gaggles of ghetto girls mollycoddle, dandle cranky babies;
some cradled on arm and hip, some hustled along
on low-rolling rides. Granma’s noodle their talk
together with headshakes, busy body elbo...
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Categories: mollycoddle, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Donald Trump Equals Pathological Psychopath

...Donald trump = pathological psychopath

Fred Trump taught his sole son Donald 
how to steal the leading way into more ass, 
though no hint given, nor prediction forecast 
in his growing up years...
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Categories: mollycoddle, abuse, america, anger, cancer,
Form: Free verse


City Jump

...Black girls mollycoddle,
dandle cranky babies;
some cradled on arm and hip,
some hustled along
on low-riding wheels.

Brown men lounge outside bodega’s,
some soft-soap, play imaginary guitars,...
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Categories: mollycoddle, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLife Is a Press

...Jackabob Give a Knob
         Open a dresser
                   Straighten up presser

Mackalong   Sing a Song
          I have to confess
                      Life can be a mess

Mollycoddl...
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Categories: mollycoddle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

Mollycoddle

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Act of treating someone in a pampered manner 

GandMa’s darling grandson finds it hard and very difficult
to participate with the team to solely handle instrument
Don't criticize he...
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Categories: mollycoddle, innocence,
Form: Limerick

Long Nosed Earthy Bookworm Knows Bout Angler Saxon

...Long nosed earthy bookworm knows 'bout Angler Saxon

Shell yours truly share hook line
and sinker, regarding how I nearly
fell prey to off fish shill
doom for umpteenth time?

Ya haint got no ...
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Categories: mollycoddle, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Wagon Man Wagon John Harrel

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The "Wagon Man"
"Wagon John" Harrel
Written: by Tom Wright
1/30/03

Glaring, glinting eyes,
set deep in a weathered face.
One scant peek revealed,
his life, at warp speed pace.

A...
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Categories: mollycoddle, death of a friend,
Form: Lyric

Logolepsy

...I have a strange malady
curiously effecting me
for I am very susceptible
to words of a variety

Words like cushlamachree
or hobbledehoy
give me such joy...
that my brain begins burbling
at a...
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Categories: mollycoddle, humor, humorous, silly, word
Form: Free verse

Redemption Lost and Silenced Thanks To Trump 1

...Yukon just coon sitter me a copacetic, energetic, ironic language lover (English is ma lingua franca late mother tongue), who waxes poetic, but tall so one babbling, creaking, and dabbling dis arming...
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Categories: mollycoddle, 12th grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Passed

...Congratulations you’ve done it!
And with flying colours too.
But then we knew you could do it
We had every faith in you.
Although your nerves were jangling
And your tummy wouldn’t settle,
We kn...
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Categories: mollycoddle, success,
Form: Light Verse

The Mentor

...We all have one in our lives, someone better than you,
not much to be done about it, in shades of blue,
where did he get the lines from, was it God-given?
Maybe, to keep you in place but how the h...
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Categories: mollycoddle, high school, language, literature,
Form: Prose

Eyes That Kissed My Mouth

...What message should I give my friend the heart?  As if my eyes
have kissed my mouth and swallowed all sweet-loving words;
where were you?  Where shall I hide from life if life had never
mentioned ...
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Categories: mollycoddle, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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