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Ed Cockrell

Onward Now Into 2024

As the year 2023 closes I have been considering how 2024 might impact my life. I was born in eastern North Carolina in1948, I grew up here…

5 min readDec 30, 2023

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Onward Now Into 2024

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Ed Cockrell

A Poem About Sisyphus

This is my original poem completed on April 22, 2021

1 min readApr 25, 2021

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A Poem About Sisyphus

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Ed Cockrell

Earth Poem 2021

This is a poem I wrote for Earth Day, April 22, 2021

1 min readApr 25, 2021

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Earth Poem 2021

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Ed Cockrell

Looking for River Turtles in Ecuador

Travel can be restorative. But in this time of COVID pandemic our opportunities to travel are curtailed. So, I give to you my original…

2 min readDec 8, 2020

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Looking for River Turtles in Ecuador

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Ed Cockrell

Tomato and Cucumber: The Gifts of Plowing

This poem falls in the erotic realm of my poetry fevers. And perhaps with winter approaching, it’s not too early to be thinking about…

2 min readNov 28, 2020

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Tomato and Cucumber: The Gifts of Plowing

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Ed Cockrell

The Actor, The Villain, The Butterfly

I enjoy having the ability to post my original poems on Medium. Posting poems on this forum is the beginning of a new journey for me. The…

2 min readNov 28, 2020

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The Actor, The Villain, The Butterfly

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Ed Cockrell

A Short Poem About Time

Medium offers me a new way to publish poems that I have written. This month I was thinking about time, relationships, black holes and life.

1 min readNov 26, 2020

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A Short Poem About Time

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Ed Cockrell

Ed Cockrell

A North Carolinian by birth and life experience with some USMC thrown in. Realistic about life and death, but essentially a pragmatic optimist. Life will be.

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