Best Cottonmouth Poems
Winter beholds
for Autumn does not yield-
bare trees none the less
26-7-2024
Underneath the skin, coiled blood hissed.
And behind his sinister grin,
A hundred teeth hid a recoiled tongues twist.
His speech blunders, but within his eyes seethe,
Words wherein they need not leave his mouth kissed.
He spoke no lies, and often wonders those bequeathed by his gab gift.
But the truth lies asunder between his own words and honest habits.
What I mean is that he often preaches despite his own practices,
A conscious unclean, an empty coffin for each his inciting blacknesses.
24-7-2024
I forgot to live at seventeen
Years of loving the living dream
Hid more of my skin
Been hiding underneath my sleeve
‘Sincerely evermore,
The Ego; The Esteem.’
23-6-2024
It’s hard not to just focus on the faces
Sharp eyes straight onwards
The pupils follow what sight traces
I can’t help being this awkward
Sometimes I feel so hollow from slight gazes
Do you ever just want to hide?
Confined to the bright places
I’ve just gotta swallow my pride
Wherever the light chases is where I get borrowed by the tide.
20-9-2023
Angry men who’re hurt by the system,
Always complain they aren’t heard by the system.
Acting out,
Maybe acting a victim,
Maybe I just act a little different,
Or maybe I’m stuck in the same boat with them.
Regardless,
I wonder what they’re all mad about,
Wonder if it’d be different if their mother’s had kissed them?
I wander about,
Lost in the desert searching for a kingdom.
I’m praying but still disallowed,
I lived a life of sin from birth,
Damned to roam,
The river bed earth forgot since its drought.
They’re in my skin,
And they’re finding a way out,
Meeting the harsh winds that are fining me down.
The hostile sky,
Burn in my cottonmouth,
I’ve no directions,
Follow the sun from north to south,
Return of the Moon,
I’ve just got turned around.
Could I be dying,
My life accursed.
Without lying,
Dying first could have me sleeping sound,
Because if the reaper’s calling,
I’m surely finding my way out.
I write with repetition throughout,
I’m not very creative,
I’m reliant,
I’m eaten up by doubt.
Five lines about me,
I’m still nothing when I scream and shout.
It was a cottonmouth they said.
I pictured a dentist pushing a bunch of cotton in my mouth.
After they had put my gums through torture.
“I hate cottonmouths” I said.
“I didn’t think you knew what they were,” my mother replied.
“You take me to one once a year, don’t you?” I wailed.
My mother’s friend gave my mother a strange look and rushed away.
It was years before I understood why.
sad and lonely inside, like a hollowed tooth with cyanide
groaning and bemoaning about the market, the trade, the money in his bank, thats who mr cottonmouth is
a very rich man with a house in his south
who whines and pouts, while others put his fires out
his tongue is long and split, with two little twins that drip
be careful, if you work for him don't trip, don't make him flip
he'll rip the stage, and try to mend the page
with the same greed that would make your mouth go dry
and like an animal, crass
or a poor child cornered in class
if you ask, why he basks so in the glow of his so called foes
he'll say its me or them, i deserve better than their pen, while he bawls and points, at the street
but if confronted with any form of the truth, it's almost comically as if theres a little cute cat, holding his silvered tongue, straight to the roof
he'll start to mold, his mouth like a snakeskin wallet that can't fold
filled with unpaid bills
but his voice won't go shrill, or squeak, he's adamant you see
that it was "them or me", refusing to believe
that he has soured all the nuts, giving them an awful bitter smell
Spunky Cottonmouth
plops into the black river.
He winds towards my boat.