Short Coterie Poems

Ever since my lobotomy 
I buy tickets in the lottery, 
and the day that I win   
I'll be invitin' in 
everyone in my coterie.  


Entered in Susan Burch's Lottery Ticket Limerick Contest for Feb 2, 2012....

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Exposed to types of poetry
a coterie
of poet friends
great poems pen

I wish that I could read them all
from that I fall
the mountain climb
there is no time

How satisfying to belong
we're growing strong
our dear peer group
Poetry Soup...

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The carefree menagerie
          a very merry coterie
        of holiday lovers, and
          well-heeled brothelers
        they rarely miss a chance
               to freeload for free

        Not stranded at borders
        shell-shocked from orders
            ~ no pretense of royalty...

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old and
           new
a coterie of
   the timid and frail
a paridigm
      of the 
             past-
    uncnanging
    fading
    in memory
    of the
           beloved-
between-nous
voiced
from
     morning-sleep
white waves
of nostalgia
linger
        upon
the morning breath
of
loves adventures...

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hospital's antiseptic ambiance,
   temple of impeccable hygiene,
      the oracle, the doctor, still not in;

the wallclock  looks bored, tired of ticking,
   drags time at an arthritic pace,
      anemic hands round its palsied face;

white coterie thrums down the hallway,
   doc's rounds complete, all waiting in place
      for his diagnostic curse or grace....

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hospital, with its antiseptic ambiance,
our top temple of impeccable hygiene,
its priest-oracle, the doctor, 
not yet in.


weary wallclock looks bored, tired of ticking,
pulls and drags time at an arthritic pace
with anemic hands around its 
palsied face.


at last, white coterie thrums down the hallway,
doc's rounds complete, everyone must wait in place
for his crucial diagnostic curse 
or praise!...

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Coterie Waltz dancers
step on step off an back 
flatter to twist in circles
blend each hand on a rack
shoulder's supple a rhyme
show light th' eyes capture
a world of wonder an lime
slides th' dance an nurture
tending speed an laughter
tripled spins chandeliers crystals
adios e're say to d'er flawless scheme
no doubt faultless in thou dream
how i wish to build my own theme
an dance just as you just gleamed...

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SPOILED

They have given her all her wishes,
All  her wants catered to by the doting parents
Aided and abetted by the doting grandma
And a coterie of accomplices from the  brigade of  aunts.
No need to wait for for  xmas or birthday for that special dress,
No need to  build up the excitement of a trip to the circus,
No need to dream : 
They have spoiled her youth.
They have  in fact already stolen all her dreams.


11  April  2021...

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a pixie dust allusion on fairy wing profusion 
a cranberry wreath on a child of bequeath 

a touch of grace on a deer soft as lace
a lantern slow beam on a forest gleam 

in a world of gilded fantasy, we are poetry 
in a world of innocent dreams their coterie 

in a fairy world of love we are impearled 
in a moment of creative enfold we're gold

an incandescent light at the end of a forest 
one touch of mercy and suddenly we're blest....

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