Cotta Poems - Poems about Cotta

The Mexican Dahlia

...The Mexican Dahlia tinged in burnt orangey-red makes me sigh 
                    as I slumber in a midsummer terra-cotta July sky~ poet
                              

    
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Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges

...I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails  
th...

Dreams Wrapped in Fairy Dust

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Written: January 08, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon 
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Creeping softly through the iron gate.
I can't belie...

A TANKA PROSE afterword

...
I walk through the glade
colour enlightens me-
 in my mind's eye
abstractions rainbow
my persoective

The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,shadowing the speckled sallow s...

FIRST DRAFT

...Mural Musings
the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
...

BLITZ of coloured words

...the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
the fallow flax...

HAIBUN in detail

...The haibun can be a standard(where haiku etc follows the prose) or afterword (where prose follows the haiku) or prose envelope (prose para haiku,para) verse envelope(haiku...

Shadow Lovers

...Could it be love when shadows overlap
Their beings blending, doubling to dark
Embracing tiled or terra cotta floor
Sliding silently as silhouettes of shame
Clinging to the still forbidden touch
...

A Wave of Fantasy In Colour

...the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation

the fallow flaxen...

Jazz the Form

...the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
the fallow flax...

Terra Cotta Clay

...Terra Cotta Clay
David J Walker

Somehow the house still felt like it was his
Wistful rejection 

The days through the doors 
The chores 

The noisy neighbors annoyed at any form of complain...

I Am the Clay - 2

...

Hands move hastily, yet gentle
Perfecting the design
With creative fingers, sensitive
To the clay, the substance
That will be brought to life
With the subtle hints of wonder

H...

Terra Cotta

...Naples perches in its own white washed stucco
Brilliant white. It almost hurts the eyes.
An irregular pitch of cliffs subsumed into terra cotta tiles
Orangish-red like scales of some headless fish...

Terror Cotta

...You should come down to Earth.        Why?...

Shattered

...My houseplant committed suicide.
It came out of the blue - or at least - I didn’t catch the signs.

I’d put it on my window ledge so it could catch some sun
- it appeared to be having a good time...

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