Short Coddles Poems

A good shot of Irish Mist
Of  Bailey a  dram
Then some Irish Cream to taste
Cuppa coffee warm
Heart coddles waiting
Taste buds awetting
All wedding
Skoal...

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To all those fallen poets
sifting fields of words
i will help them grow
describing pain that melts the snow
and a glow the darkness coddles
let me get sum right...

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On unbearably pleasant days
she beckons the ferryman
to taxi her to the
dark places of her past
to stock up on bitterness,
envy, rancor
a delusional cocktail for the
attention-starved addict
with the trademark, fatalistic,
false sense of power.
Self-respect makes a break for it
while she coddles demons in her sleep....

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When I close my eyes and look into the darkness
I see the reverse image of swirling time
Glimpses of you, but you are not there
Like Schrödinger's cat, you are alive and dead
But all it takes is a potion
And my eyes will remain closed for eternity
The ease of which, has its own damnation
For this life still coddles and excites
And allows me to weep and moan
When I close my eyes and see you in the darkness...

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How luscious the ripened grapes, purple sweet
Enthralling us  in their leafy bower
Where a lush orchard coddles yield every  hour—
Moonlight and dawn  gloss velvet skins replete
With bathed  nectarine turning into wine…
An elixir  when  our affection glows :
Cabernet , more precious than scented rose
As lovers’ mouths sip of romance divine!



Contest of Brian Strand: Late Feb 2019...

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The greatest pretender in the sky
is a thief in wings
and sings and sings in purloined folly.

A burlesque bird first loots a throat
then coddles every stolen note
and assembles every syllable

Then one by one in choral mime
as though true specie in the air
acts with incipit pompous dare.

And what honest notes could sound
that author care the see
that invention were an honest gift
achieved with authenticity....

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