Best Cottons Poems
Call Me Home...You are the river running through
unfathomable greens
glassy yellows
down in the core of the river
flicker lightness on top
You increase me…swell me…impregnate without word or deed
push me to the f......
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Categories:
cottons, first love, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Jai Hind Happy 70th Birthday To India...Mother India
Each August 15th since 1947, a day of expectant waiting –
Either terror from India’s enemies and frenemies
Or the terror of weather, some natural happening
Or holiday hazards, eve......
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Categories:
cottons, absence, africa, beauty, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Raindrops Falling...
The roof seems to have come alive
Raindrops now treading softly on tip toes
The skies clouded with cottons full of water
They drip down as though they are squeezed
Black turns white and so t......
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Categories:
cottons, nature, rain, rain, today,
Form:
Free verse
What Lesser Mortals...
What lesser mortals?
What lesser mortals
than Rimbaud
claim themselves
a poet within
another self,
for there is more
than just one self
depending on the
time a......
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Categories:
cottons, imagery, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Never Changing...I’ve traded my final smiles for a rock and a rush..
Shooting my veins for death at thirty five.
last chance to steal a detox from the county cause
Everyone knows government checks don’t bounce.......
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Categories:
cottons, death, depression, me, me,
Form:
Narrative
Gold Plated Ideals...beautiful, cinderella, crazy, growing up, humor, word play,
Gold Plated Ideals©
The ice-white-capped teeth
Smile and beguile the contacted eye
‘Java’ white-bright tee shirts dazzle
Plastic ......
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Categories:
cottons, beautiful, cinderella, crazy, growing
Form:
Light Verse
Cottons Southern Man...More than a man, the south made.
Black and white, south one started,
great oaks refused no man a child
to hang about it, call dark christmas.
Hallow was a name, old now hollow.
Stigma inside we......
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Categories:
cottons, childhood, education, political, school,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Socks...Flipping Heck! - they're at it again!
There's a shuffling noise from the drawer
It's clear they're having a promiscuous party
And swapping their partners once more
I'd paired them up with duty......
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Categories:
cottons, clothes,
Form:
Light Verse
Human Nature...As little child walked in the field of flowers,
Picking and smelling them as she grows,
The pervading air fragrance of Guava
The majestic mellow Mangoes too in wet season,
The atmosphere ......
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Categories:
cottons, visionarygreen, space,
Form:
Free verse
Fair Weather Friends...goodbye to white skies grey clouds leave as fair cottons ......
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Categories:
cottons, beauty, seasons, spring, weather,
Form:
Haiku
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -..."I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I marvel the view as my eye-lashes wink and bli......
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Categories:
cottons, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Pillow Fights...Cottons in the clouds –
Children having pillow fights
Jumping up and down.
7/27/14......
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Categories:
cottons, childhood, fun, joy,
Form:
Senryu
Lowell 2...Ambling and ankling on red brick and cobblestone
gone are your cottons and calicoes.
Factory skeletons repurposed,
phantom workers operate
Ghost looms in condo kitchens.
The sun sets like a ......
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Categories:
cottons, adventure, appreciation, howl, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Summer Clouds...** I went outside and watched the summer sky....
Cotton in the clouds –
If I cling on these softness,
Will the wind find you?
Slabs in the clouds –
If I hop from cloud to cloud......
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Categories:
cottons, emotions, fun, how i
Form:
Senryu
Achromatic Pentameter...Have you not looked upon horizons pink,
Outstretched from dreary skies of yesternight,
That vanquish tearful blue as cottons blink
And gray reflects the glow of lunar light?
Are stargazed lilies ......
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Categories:
cottons, introspection, moving on, time,
Form:
Ekphrasis