Short Cocks Poems

Blizzard of waving
white towels spinning to greet
the Gamecock players....

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Cocks cried,
Walked a new morning,
Shaking hands and welcomed,
The back yard birds!...

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His neck cocks forward
lonely voice reverberates
The first Loonie Tune


SKAT's any Haiku will do contest....

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How I crave to tease these
Cocks with a one tract mind
Like headless chickens 
Blind and deaf to common sense
Clueless, mindless, and pathetic....

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There was a man with bright white eyes,
And his eyes, they whispered the lies 
That cocks tell to woo 
Hens to love them true.
I loved him, and ended in cries!...

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This story could be poppycock
Heard cocks fight a lot in Bangkok
At first hearing this
Took an emotional fit
Cruelty is evident imagine the aftershock...

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young chicks
become
old hens

young cocks
become 
old dreamers 
remembering

cock-a-doodle-doo

cock-a-doodle-doo
while the hens cluck 
in their sweet dreams...

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horror-filmmaker's mind dreams

   ~ audience screams 



                August 12, 2020
    2-LINE POEM - ziket Poetry Contest
             Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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I own a rooster
live on a farm
the animals vote
I am simply caretaker

Under my farm
there is a huge bunker
a thousand men in uniform
systems, equipment and missiles

I am simply caretaker...

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In the chilly weather, all just wonder
Inside the blanket, incubated a night
Still rains pouring, cocks still crow
To signify for all, lives ripe to start
Contents of incubation,turn to give more...

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I asked the spring its name
It answered only to the 
Weather vane

Their secret conversation
Carried on the wind, while
Fading stars, in dawns
Volcano sky, wondered 
Deep why weather cocks
Can’t fly?...

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Old Ferdie had a bushy beard
when bathing some birds just appeared
two cocks and a hen
a rook and a wren
were nesting, it truly was weird!

Inspired after spotting a man with a HUGE beard

1/2/19...

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Heat grows
Frustration shows
Temper glows
Inhibitions go

Gun unlocks
Trigger cocks
Legislative gridlock
Future shock

God waits
Man hates
Tempts fate
Opens floodgates

Man sins
Murder grins
Jungle din
Death wins...

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Two Mutes in the Press Room


The two mutes we hired
to wheel hot type 
are bickering again

Their fingers 
quicker than beaks of cocks 
tear the air

with perfect curses
tongues never utter
ears never hear


Donal Mahoney...

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She moved gracefully,
her chicks under armpits
pecking here and there
to feed her baby-cocks
and baby-hens hatched
a day ago.

She could suddenly sing
warning songs of security
whenever she saw killer kite
perched on nearby tree....

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Queen Johanna I of Naples
Reigned over the marriage bed
"No wife must yield to her husband
More than six times per day," she said.

And now you know the reason
Why they all died young, back then
It wasn't the spaghetti
Just cocks chasing after the hen!...

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#1
bats swarm from their caves
flying bugs are swept from sky
raptors of the air

#2
rain puddles on lawn
robin cocks his head slightly
earthworms heard not seen

#3
gulls attack shallows
survival of the lucky 
caviar du jour

Long Tooth
July 7, 2016...

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1
Lights stab night
Cocks call day
Snakes hide.

2
Sun hates sleep
Winds roam dry
Lips crack.

3
Air wears dust
Eyes lose tears
Streams dry.

4
Trees hate leaves
Shrubs choose death
Fires rage.

5
Dark strikes day
Bugs praise night
Doves roost....

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PRIMED

a call for their heads
illogical conclusion
jagged and precise

mirror of confusion
a degree of highest price
vanity spins webs

mob insurrection
pointed every direction
russian roulette cocks*

7/17/2017

*position the hammer of a firearm for firing...

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Her head tips up,
Cocks to the side.
A smile graces her features
As she listens to the rumble of the sky.

The clouds start to drizzle, 
The sun starts to hide
She laughs, full of joy,
As the droplets rain from the sky.

17 October 2022, Monday
Contest: BiteSize Poems...

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Dearest Vicar –
As a poet’s lines: 
It is divinity proper!

Onions figure
In our everlasting divinings:
Her white ashes
Of our burn-fire 
And the dew of dawn’s tears
Still coax the rainbow 
To no avail

Her white ashes
Splashing wet-dusts of dark days:
Cocks crow in vain?...

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Please don’t voice ‘A, No’
Add to what you know.
Rapidly, we grow…
Don’t make yours the slow;
Best The Early Hoe,
That strikes a farm’s row…

It should be a blow
Your river can’t flow:
In Spirit ‘The low’
After the cocks crow

Or pulled by the toe
Like a car to tow...

The Long Unused Bow....

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.
R uffed feathers smoothed
O ver minor infractions tempers flared
A nalogy to two Cocks fighting 
D estiny exciting vacation

T angled arms and legs
R estlessness dissipated
I ndividualy each child slept
P atiently dreaming of first ocean splash

Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Contest: ROAD TRIP
Written: August 24, 2013...

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That night !
it was impenetrably  dark
      And the moon had been rising
until  the dogs barked.

When ever the moon moved and rose
        All  the  cocks started to crow
And the whole night turned  black
         like charcoal.

Oh.......
           What a funny night
that made us cry
            the owls and the bats!...

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The seeds you planted shall grow.
I saw the ones you did sow,
I think that's what you should know.
You don't cocks order to crow,
The twilight to shadows throw
And you can't tell River "Flow".

Down the grasses in farms mow.
They're weeds: much worse than snow.
When you do this lines you toe.
If you fail wait for the blow!

Tell others I told you so....

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