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Best Cotillion Poems


Premium Member Between Reality and Understanding
...A thought arose...

In Hegel's great dialectic cotillion,
Time transcends as the Absolute emerges,
From deep submersion.
Veritably idealistic path to verity.
It is all about History!

While S......

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Categories: cotillion, introspection, philosophy, psychological, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reeling In Motion
...I twist evermore past a cotillion of meteors
Spreading plumes across unknown rhythm;
A mad swivel with myself, thrilling my essence 
In a hanging motion of a dip…I find myself alone
on the floor;......

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Categories: cotillion, dance, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midnight Romance
...Debutantes with secret lives of crimson
could drink and smoke much more than anyone,
dressed in ivory postbellum fashion
sable coats, charcoal tuxes by the ton.

In and out of shadows obsidian
......

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Categories: cotillion, culture, dance, daughter,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Memories On Branches
...Scrumptious sight of prairies and grass
       Ardent beaming of flower buds and buzzing bees
         Leafless coils, branches of trees become alive
          Hastening! Arousing everyone's joy and ......

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Categories: cotillion, autumn, life, seasons, spring,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Six-Word Couplet Series Encore
...Autumn
Chilled breezes blow.
Warm firesides glow.

Pumpkins
Orange and round
Litter the ground.

Skies
Hold November rains.
Soak gentle plains.

Maple Trees
D......

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Categories: cotillion, autumn,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fluttering in Moonlight
...
Their fluttering starts in moonlight
When Luna reaches zenith height
She croons as butterflies take flight
Magical night         Magical night

I was in awe without askance
Mesmer......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cotillion, butterfly, dance, moon,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member The Cotillion Ball
...The red gown rustles touched by the breeze
Fall's chilly rain drops drip with ease  

Sponsor: Rick Parise
Contest: Crystalline
Theme:Autumn Oak......

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Categories: cotillion, beauty,
Form: Crystalline
The Feathered Fan
...A beautiful fan of many a hue,
Feathers adorn it when opened, so
gently cooling the air with a graceful swoop,
When your subtle wrist moves to and fro.

Was Mamgu’s fan when she was young,
When......

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Categories: cotillion, dance, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreamtime: Woodenman
...Unbeknownst to me, WoodenMan enjoyed quite a cotillion of female admirers. With 
his rosewood
dimples barely lifted in permanent bemusement, women found him adorable, though 
decidedly eunuch.

......

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Categories: cotillion,
Form: Narrative
Bunny
...	Carol Brown
Contest Name
	Bunny Rabbits 

Bunnys down here are a winning,
lissa virus, keeps a killing ,
man made by the blest,
to kill off this pest,
free food in the great depression,  ......

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Categories: cotillion, adventure, food,
Form: Rhyme
Provisions
...Earth         was a perfumed garden
residing in a single                    galaxy
          beauteous fair among the planeted channels
so blooms its presence           which has given birth      ......

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Categories: cotillion, bible, creation, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winged Kisses
...Bright and blue the dainty butterfly was
Kissing each flower “hello” as she passed
Gently landing on their blooms without pause
She scurried carefree, till enough nectar she’d amassed

Raised......

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Categories: cotillion, animals, flower, blue, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Night's Sky
...The Moon awakes
With the sleepless Stars
As the Earth settles to rest.

Venus keeps company
With rose-tinted Mars,
The Hunter saunters toward west.

The Bear wanders
And ambles around
While......

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Categories: cotillion, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Prism
...Bent glass danced light from windows over looking vacant playgrounds,
as Mr. Ingersall taught refraction and dispersion.

Rainbows tap-danced walls to chalkboard, brushing equations,
while impish......

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Categories: cotillion, 5th grade, math, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Last Spike
...The Last Spike

Helios orb peers cautiously
 with guarded optimism
 through cracker-slatted clouds
as Thor's divine implement
 shatters the morning stillness with the clap of a sonic boom

Me......

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Categories: cotillion, butterfly, endurance, family, hilarious,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things