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Joni Cottle (email)

 

About the Poet:

Joni is a Certified Nurse Assistant currently residing in rural North Carolina with her husband of 27 years.  She has two children, and she enjoys writing in her spare time.

 

 

FROZEN IN TIME


THE ESSENCE OF HER BEAUTY SHINES
BRIGHT LIKE THE MOON
SATURN RINGS AROUND HER HEAD                             
LIKE A COCOON
FAIRY PRINCESS OF AZURE PURE

A NATIVE OF NEPTUNE                                       
SHE ATE OF THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT               
NOW LOST IN A LAGOON
SHE DRIFTS AIMLESSLY
ON A BLANKET OF CLOUDS

MILKY WHITE SKIN
RADIATING LIGHT
HER LIPS ARE ARTIC FROZEN
ELECTRIC BLUE
LOCKS CAPTIVATING THE NIGHT
HER BODY IS MESMERIZING
AS SHE FLOATS DOWN
FROM THE GALAXIES OF THE MILKY WAY
LOST IN A SEA
OF CONSTELLATIONS


 

NAUGHTY NYMPHS

 

LAYING THERE IN
RIPPLES OF RED
SWEET PIXIE
ON THIS NIGHT WITH LITTLE LIGHT
BARE FEET MAY SWAY
AND NAUGHTY NYMPHS
COME DOWN TO PLAY
INTO THE EBONYS MOON SKY
WITH SAND MANS EYES IT SEEMS
BRAZEN SKIN

AS COOL AS THE MISTY SEA
AND HAIR LIKE CHESTNUT BROWN
IN TWILIGHT SLEEP SHE KEEPS
IS THIS HER EVIL TWIN
PONDERING PLATONIC THOUGHTS
WITHIN HER STARDUST NIGHTS
SWEET PIXIE IS LOST

PANDORA'S BOX IS WANTING TO
BE OPENED
FROM WITHIN HER DEVILISH LOCKS
SHE HOLDS ONTO HER SILVERY PILLOW
IN A REFLECTION SHE SEES OF HER ON FANTASY
IN A MURKY POOL SWEET PIXIE IS LOST
THOUGHTS INTERTWINE
LIKE A PLOTTING SCHEME IT SEEMS!!

 

 

CHAMPION LIGHT
 

Where is my bright champion
Of the night?
Like an eagle he soared
And, he took flight
What was his
purpose
what was his plight?
Full of courage,
ever bright!!
 

Stood so tall against fierce winds
Upon the mighty sea
Where is my bright champion of the night?
He steered his coarse in my direction
Gave me hope , with no prevail,
upon a misty sea
Where is my bright champion of the night?
 

Where is my bright champion of the night?
with eyes sharp as eagles
He wrapped his wings
around my soul
My heart went slightly adrift
His beacon lost its gleam it seems!!
but, now I've decided to seek the shore
Once more
For the shores of my new heart are bound...