Cotton Poems | Examples

Cotton Candy Skies

sunsets    s t r a w b e r r  y    spun

Whitecaps

Feathery white lines
cotton wool stretched across thin
folding and rolling

Veracity

I have often wondered if they blundered
or if there's any truth to the advertising
within the words written on me
a simple clothing label advising
a promise a guarantee
100% Cotton
but does it refer to the garment or myself
the mere material it is printed on
a paradox perhaps
all of which goes to show
it's a dilemma the answer to which
this enquiring mind needs to know

New Year, that same Wish

Another year goes past, they just fly and never seem to last,

The resolutions I dream in my head, all hanging there by a thin cotton thread,

Some I make because it's what others expect, but the real ones nobody can every detect,

The wish that is there constantly, is that you would come back to me, on every new year this is my new,old wish, and one year it might actually come true.

Cotton-Mouth

My tongue holds cotton to my teeth
Holds the dry in my throat
I cannot breathe here
My voice is escaped from me
I do not speak with sound
My hands are my larynx
I hold my regards to my noise
I have given my beauty to the wall clock 
Now I sit silently
I watch the budgies in the front yard
I follow the flowers and the breeze with my eyelashes
This is my now
I am here now
I cannot breathe at all
The window pane holds my heart
"Keep your chin up, child"
I am not a child
"Put your mind at ease, baby"
I am not your baby
I am not love
Nor hate
I am somewhere betwixt loathe and affection
I don't think the wall clock cares for me anymore
I believe these thruths to be self-evident.
I think I will wait for tomorrow to tell.

Cotton Laughter

Just
a bit 
too formal,
pearl taffeta 
or buttered chiffon;
I’m more into cotton,
something to belly laugh in;
Toes in the sea or a theme park;
Stained all over with a good time,
living in a tank top with rhinestone fringe.

Cotton Tree

All is bright, and I betwixt God and you,
  the kookaburra is in the willow,
and honeyeaters in the honeydew
  flitter as I lay your breast and pillow.
You are my morning and evening star,
  sweet inveigler to the unpracticed heart -
girl, all I need is to be where you are
  and never know what woe it is to part.
So we are in our beguiling sublimed
  by a divine ordinance or blessing,
but visceral love, like a woman’s mind,
  keep all mortal men eternal guessing.
Kid, you mean and are everything to me
and I do love the stars in Cotton Tree.


       Written: September 1997


*Cotton Tree is a little enclave
  in Maroochydore, Queensland.
  Our unit was the next directly 
  to the left of the one circled.

Egyptian Cotton

There are two lovers who find out they can be together.
They live together forever, and holding each other.
In Egyptian cotton and feathered bed, one doing the other.

THE CRUELTY OF TIME

Oh, how cruel time can be!
Shattering hopes and killing beauty.
Slowly it steals moments, leaving everything bare
Time, a relentless force, beyond compare.

Here lies a victim of time's cruelty, the ruins of the cotton tree
Once a symbol of resilience, a beacon of the free
Now a reminder of nature’s vulnerability.
It withstood tsunamis over the years
Yet a mere breeze brought it to tears.

Time robs us of the things we love,
Leaving empty spaces in the skies above.
Its callous hands never rest
Leaving scars upon each beating chest.

The beauty of Freetown, green all year round
Gasping for breath as its life was unbound.
Freetowneans gather to the weeping sound
As on May 24th, the mighty tree was felled to the ground.

We'll seize the moments, stand with pride
For in the end, when all is said and done
Time's cruelty fades, and life's victories are won.
A new tree is just being born...

cotton and words

cotton floats through sky 
as words float on white paper 
everything with ease

Cotton trees

Cotton floats across lake letting their presence known

Cotton wool

It is instinctive,
No parent can help it,
If cotton wool is in the house,
A parent will find it.

When single we don't see a need for it,
But as soon as that little bundle of joy arrives,
It is added to the must have list.

It has caused many a marriage to self-destruct,
And should only be used as directed,
Preferably by a maiden Aunt,
Or understanding grandparents,
Who were brought up on a farm.

Of course there are dangers to protect children from,
But sooner or later the real world beckons.
Preparing them to live in it requires less cotton Wool,
And more risk management teaching.

But before you throw out all the cotton wool,
Experts agree that it may be, 
The only thing to keep them safe,
From Danger in the virtual world.

Living with shadows

Once there was a time,
mill chimneys ruled our skies,
above the shadowed streets,
where people lived their lives.

Once there were the stories,
that grandma used to share,
of troubled times at the mill,
and kitchen cupboards bare.

Once there was a window,
at home where I belonged,
I sat and counted those chimneys,
but they disappeared one by one.

Once there was cotton here,
it's kingdom didn't last,
we're still living with shadows,
those memories of the past.

Clouds

Chunks like white cotton that
Can float in sky. Clumps of
Condensed water vapor
Cause rain on earth, bringing
Cheer in summers. Canvas
Countryside they adorn.
Could sometimes mean gloom too!

The County Fair

With cotton candy 
Pink and dandy,
Funnel cakes, sweet
All you can eat

A Ferris wheel 
To make you squeal,
The carousel 
Sure looks swell 

Toss a ring
To win something, 
Pop a balloon 
You'll get it soon

Try to get that prize
Go for the biggest size,
Win a pet if you wish
Take home a goldfish 

Stay there all night
For every sound and sight,
Like a kid again, be
So much to do and see

Show off what you do
Win a ribbon, blue,
Shower what you raise 
With the highest praise 

Craft and quilt 
By hands built,
Goodness canned 
Grown on the land

Pumpkins and pies
To delight the eyes,
Each cow and pig
The biggest of the big

Farmer's best on display 
Sat in a pile of hay,
Take in the dairy air
At the county fair!

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