Long Cotton Poems

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Premium Member cringe

I’m pretty sure cringe is the most modern poetic style

Med-school freshman year is over - finals are over, 
and if they aren’t already forgotten they’re fading fast 
- my relief feels like achievement.

We haven’t gotten our grades yet, but I’m full 
of aggressive patience and prom optimism.

One suspects the grades will arrive soon, but if they’re bad, 
I hope they’ll have the decency to wait a couple more weeks.

The thing is, I’m no longer spiraling!
My moods changed from high-anxiety to summer itinerary.

Peter (my bf) and I are swiping-right on freedom, messy as that is.
Our mission is to re-write the entirely accurate school-year emotional-math, 
from studies 100, boyfriends 0.

No more lectures, labs, and computer screen-time malaise,
we’ll tackle the ‘loneliness epidemic’ in a hundred ways
- because freedom always begins as a decision.

We’re on our way to the sunny-fair beaches of Heraclee
- on the French Riviera, where heaven’s in easy reach
and life can unwind, unburdened by consequence.

Our mornings will be sun splashed and surf-adjacent - I say,
“If youth must be wasted, make it a littoral squandering.”

In the evenings we’ll chase the dusk on rented bikes,
and watch the local kids flying 3D, sculptured kites.

There’s a rickety old merry-go-round that we can ride all night
on garish, multicolored sea creatures from B-movie features. 

Busy Saint Tropez is right down the street (11 miles)
where there’s a rainbow ferris-wheel lit by 160,000 LEDs,
Hawaiian ices, neon lights, dance contests, and cotton candy.

It’s very festival-like, and while music spills from local bars,
we’ll sip umbrella’d concoctions under the stars.

I’ll be wearing cheaply purchased, beach-merch tank-tops,
that I didn’t own last week and I’ll donate in the fall, 
with prada silk-mini-skirts so short that they’re practically earrings 
- no fashion Interventions please.
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Songs for this:
Hawt Heart by Born At Midnite
Celebration Lover by Chuck Senrick
Smash by Born At Midnite
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littoral = seashore


Premium Member - a Swan -

You sail in the wind
                                along the edge of the globe
                                The sea with white rippled waves
                                The sun shines through the sails
                                which is raining down from a rich universe
                                Driving wind,
                                salty lips,
                                golden wings
                                on cotton clouds
                                The longing,
                                the strength,
                                wide and blue
                                The moon and the tide,
                                eternal renewal
                                Joy and wonder,
                                has no end





                                09/08/2021
                                Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
                                Copyright © All Rights Reserved

Premium Member Love, Torn

monogamy ...
               shredded by actuality
          there, on the cold cotton sheets
      lay the discarded remnants of my pride
   torn into shameful shards and ragged strips of infidelity
 and hidden deep within the shadow of a broken heart
no draft of recompense would be worthy barter
               nor apt or artful atonement ... not anymore
              I'd spied the cur's face, you see
            the blackguard's gaze had found me upon escape
         and returned it, did I, with exacting ire
     alas, had it the force of a bullet, (oh, haste!)
naught but ruin would have stained those moments
               those far-too-brief-but-endless caught-in-the-act moments
          yet such looks are only messages, not weapons
      besides, it was she with the bloody apron
   she who held the blade, firm ... steady
 who drew its rusty edge across my heart, and thrust ...
he ... merely twisted it.






~ 1st Place ~  in the "One In Four" Poetry Contest, Joseph May, Judge & Sponsor.

(Line chosen - "Within the shadow of a broken heart")

Premium Member - Soft Swan Wings -

You are a jeweled gift sparkling diamond rock temple 
One of thousand in the world touched petal by petal 

Skies above true blue wrapped cotton white emotions 
Arches over our earthly plains east to west one circle 

Inside silk ribbon feelings tie the knot perfectly 
With wings of a swan bound unto you eternally

In you who crowns the heart with passions ignite magic 
When the sky was falling into the promised land chants 

Carnation of a flower deeply stirring dewdrops rose 
In light of the rainbow mountains shone glitter dust

Loving you morning and night never goes out of fashion 
Amor helped to ignite flames that burn purely with love 










A Collaborated Poem 
Anne-Lise Andresen and Liam Mc Daid 
07.09.2016
(unrhymed couplets)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Form: Couplet

Puppy-Favorite Poem Contest

Favorite Poem Contest
Sponsor:Judy Konos

                                                 My sweet 
                                      mate                        love 
                                    soul                             brown 
                                saliva                                    and
                             drip                                           black
                          ears                                                soft 
                         floppy                                                   as 
                        wag                      PUPPY                   snow
                             tail                                               walk
                                  nose                                  park                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                  wet                                 fluffy
                                  collar                              as      
                                   red                            cotton
                                     kids                       petting
                                         from             glances
                                                  smiles


Written By: Laura Urbaniak
Date:October 3, 2015

1st Place Winner
Form: Shape


Okay What Fiend Stole Thy Body Electric

Thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool 
   upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata 
   flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence magic wand 
whipped out from 
   whereabouts unknown 

wove disenchanting spell 
   atop me shaded noggin more'n 
   fifty ruffle lake  suns
   Dorian Gray pictured here
to fore, awakened 
   from drunken stupor, 
whence sober self 

saw repulsive trouper 
   fluid dynamic image jeer
at pot bellied, dead panned, 
and ad libbed the mere
ore image lam bent, 
   mutilated spindled 
various horrid aspects of 
   myself nine inch 
   rusty nails impaired 

which, aghast at such 
   creepy distortion i didst rear
like a bucking bronco unclear
how this horrid, jagged, 
   limned paragon did wear
a grotesque disfigured Joeseph Conrad
   lost within heart of darkness – maybe Zaire

or Zulu-land, this 
   soaked silhouette half bare
from waist to head showed unmanly 
sagging overly engorged breasts 
plus right and left elephant sized ear 
egad, THAT CANNOT BE ME, 

yet upon performing 
   self exam a glare
ring outburst ensued, 
cuz thy once 
   bronzed handsome physique 
now grist for a Joker to jeer
and fodder made 
   for television series created, 
directed, and executed by Norman Lear
which role might be 
   temporary for Halloween, but near
lee every SINGLE day and night, 
thy aged dusk fraught hominid jerked, 
leaped, pooh poohed I ham ill prepared 

to accept, roistering, rollicking, 
rueing this Frankenstein scarred
complex deplorable edifice able, 
ready, and willing to be tarred
rather than evince flabbiness, 
gruesome homeliness, instance 

when no objection would arise 
to live out the remaining days of this life
as the world wide web turns, spins, rattles...
and voluntarily sign myself into a stew ward
with (at minimum ), a ghoulish, gnarly, 
gummy self activated door 

leading to privet hedge row trimmed 
topiary resplendent yard
cuz every cotton pickin, friggin, 
fingerhut lickin portal iz barred
dated Friday the thirteenth 
   with **** face on that card!

Premium Member Window Washer Committee

A grayish blue beluga whale arrived two minutes too late.
The whole committee yelled "no"  before half past eight.

Fifteen minutes later, a filthy, smelly camel tromped in,
Making the whole committee laugh out of their skin.

A lion tried to enter, roaring with all of his might.
We knew we couldn't get him back out without a fight.

So we barricaded the door, and we shushed each other,
And we tried not to argue, which was hard for my mother.

There wasn't any problem until three days ago.
We had no beefs, and it had not yet snowed.

Our ideal window washer has been here forever and a day.
He’d be here still if the good Lord had not taken him away.

He was here yesterday, the big, giant cad.
But he's dead now, and we're all spitting mad.

This committee was hastily assembled in the aftermath. 
Fred had been here forever and a day, our own smart giraffe.

He’d washed our windows, he’d sorted our mail, he’d spoiled us rotten, 
And now he was resting outside in a soft fluffy field of cotton.

“No, sorry, we’d say quickly, without fear.
Wishing Fred would wake up and come running back here.

But the giraffes cannot go on after they're dead,
So we ended up hiring a stack of monkeys instead.

Premium Member Northern Signs of Climate Change

Shadows stretching eastward
Setting sun in daylight lost
Fall creeps in on chilly fingers
Grasses matted by morning frost.

Trees comply ablaze with color
Flashing signals in Autumn’s roust
To feathered, clothed, or furry creatures
Storing food or flying south.

Grey fog gauzing upward
Where Canadas vector in the sky
Above dark waters cooled over night
Honkie-talkie as they fly.

Pumpkins glowing orange 
Bundled corn stalks stripped and bound
Freshening winds start groaning-whining
Hints of change for frost bound ground.

Cotton to flannel to fleece and wool
Make ready for winter’s unknown
Top off the firewood, gas, or oil
Secure the harvest - secure the home.
Form: Rhyme

My Special Place

I'm standing on earth, on fresh green grass, with wind softly kissing my cheek.
I feel the blades, between my toes, the softness and calm that I seek.
The sun oozes down, from cotton filled skies, and light embraces the ground.
Colour and light, fill gazing eyes, as its happiness, in which I have found.

I turn my head, in a smooth and slow motion, as light blue turns to dark.
I see an ocean, so astonishingly large, as I stand upon a landmark.
The deep dark blues, that divide the skies, have beauty and wonder within,
The treacle sun that oozes down, upon waters that fish live in.

Turquoise and emerald, navy and gold, the sea glitters upon the light,
As small white boats, will pass on by, through sunset and into the night.
Crantock beach, the end of the road, but the beginning of peaceful mind,
I stand on the hill, and inhale sea breeze, and look at what I can find.

If I look to the sea, I see the calm, and shimmering sun lit waves.
If I look down the cliff edge, I see sharp rocks, where sailors have made their graves.
I look to the beach, and I see my past, a child running with a dog.
Then I look to the skies, where Buster now waits, through the clearness, and the fog.

I exhale my long and glorious breath, as my peace is found down here,
As I stand with my partner, I smile and say, "I know that Buster is near".
I feel at peace, not a care in the world, when I visit my special place,
The only area, in the whole wide world, where the smile never leaves my face.

 - i miss you Buster x
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member such thuh fine thews

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                                 wrap'd
                            with      tint'did
                                   sun
                                   taut prize'd sheath

                                drape'd
                            with      cotton
                                   blue 
                                   diaphanous sundress

                                 strip'd 
                           with       scantiez
                                    no
                           with      scruplez
                                    no
                                    edvard beginz sculpt'en
                                                                      hern







*the astute artist knowz;
  thuh sculpt beginz 'fore
  yuh ever touch thuh medium
                                             <]')

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