Wattpad - by CottonJones

Adventures of Cotton Top

CottonJones / 7 pages
The folowing stories are tales from my childhood. Some are excerpts from my unpublished manuscript; Blood of our Children, and others are just short stories. The first story is a lipogram (removing all words with the letter "e"). You can see th...

The Reason

CottonJones / 1 page
This is a theological essay on the opening verses of the Gospel of John. "The Word" or logos has no meaning to us. What is "the word", well it means reasoning, logical thought. In the beginning was logical thought. I have provided a modern Gree...

Older Poems from the Pen of Olan L. Smith

CottonJones / 3 pages
This is a variety of my earlier poems.

Undeclared

CottonJones / 1 page
This poem is written in couplet form and speaks to our inability to read the handwriting on the wall.

Too Much Rope

CottonJones / 1 page
This is a poem on not listening to the words of our guardians to move toward peace.

Mermaid of the Lake

CottonJones / 1 page
This story poem is about cleansing.

Fish Out of Water

CottonJones / 1 page
Fish Out of Water is a poem dealing with a dream. Jung tells us that water represents the unconscious mind and the two parts of the personas in this poem are played by the anima (femine) and animus (male) aspects of the both the conscious and unc...

Constipation

CottonJones / 1 page
This is political satire and is meant as such, nothing personal toward your political views but is written in fun of the fact we cannot have two kings and expect the country to move, pun intended.

What Woes We Wrought

CottonJones / 1 page
Lies and untruths, is the subject of many a story. Here is a supposition to think about.

Two Souls in the Twilight

CottonJones / 2 pages
This is my my first attempt at lyrics so I am interested in your thoughts. This song lyrics came to me in a vivid dream and I woke and wrote it down. It is about my first lover and she comes back to me, in my dreams, to sing this song to me.

Kali; Goddess of Time and Change

CottonJones / 1 page
The poem is a verbal expression of a dream I had in July of 2007. The woman in the dream is my spirit guide who moves me to write and live life. The comparison and allusion here is this guide is Kali mate of Shiva and bringer of renew.

Inhabitants of Disgrace

CottonJones / 1 page
Inhabitants of Disgrace was written for a post graduate class; the assignment was to experience homelessness and then write about it. Although it is an older poem I felt it deserved its own page.

Ophiuchus

CottonJones / 1 page
"Ophiuchus" is a double acrostic poem using the first words of each line and letters to name the title. Ophiuchus is the thirteen constellation that the sun currently resides in and it and is known as the Thirteenth House of the Zodiac.

Every Day

CottonJones / 1 page
Life of a poet and the brief, hopefully brief, interruptions due to illnesses such as the flu.

Blue Trails: Riding Rod

CottonJones / 1 page
Blue Trails: Riding Rod was inspired by an obituary of a local man who was "beating his way to" a neighboring town in 1897. Coroners report said that he was suspected of riding rod on the train cars and lost his grip. "He leaves a wife and five ...

Time before Time

CottonJones / 1 page
"Time before Time" is a free verse acrostic poem, but not the ordinary acrostic; this acrostic is a hidden message within the message. To discover the secret phrase spell out the letters that are in bold; did you find it?

Tale of a Blue Fae

CottonJones / 1 page
This is a discourse between Titania and Oberon as she pleads for her husband to return her as his light is absent. Alinda, is a Sanskrit name that means balcony or support of the gods; Titania is the Queen of the fairies and Oberon is the King of...

Upon a Ledge

CottonJones / 1 page
This is a tercet poem dealing with life of bird on a ledge who is observing the life of humans on a busy street in the 1800's.

Oblong Box

CottonJones / 1 page
Oblong Box is an parody poem of Poe's short story, "The Oblong Box" with a rhyme scheme of a,a,b,b,a,c,c,a.

Narcissistic Gods

CottonJones / 1 page
"Narcissistic Gods" is an alphabet restraint poem starting with "a" and going to z. The poem is 26 words long with the initial letter of each word beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, in sequence.

Sparkling Heavens

CottonJones / 1 page
Sparkling Heavens is a free-verse quatrain poem that questions life.

Blaze a Steel Trail

CottonJones / 1 page
Blaze a Steel Trail is a quatrain poem about working on the transcontinental railroad. I have attached a youtube video with this poem to give you a feeling of the labor involved. The photographic image is the Station in my home home town taken ea...

Tears and Fears

CottonJones / 1 page
A decastich poem, ten lines, using rhyme scheme of a,b,a,b,a,c,d,d,c,c

A Tree is Her Grounding

CottonJones / 1 page
A Tree is Her Grounding is a two tercet poem with the rhyme scheme abc, abc.

Ramblers

CottonJones / 1 page
Ramblers is a ballad about visitors in the night that approach us as we sleep or meditate. This visitors come by many names, muses, guides, angels, devas, gods and of course, aliens.

Shakespeare does Jack and Jill

CottonJones / 1 page
This is a parody on Shakespeare and nursery rhymes. I was inspired by a re-post of cartoon of Shakespeare and Spot on Facebook.

Sonnet: VIII, Adonis

CottonJones / 1 page
This English sonnet is the reflects of Adonis after being killed by the wild boar and awaits his fate as Aphrodite bargains for his fate.

Koan No. 3

CottonJones / 1 page
Koan on poetry.

Koan No. 2

CottonJones / 1 page
Koan 2 dealing with voices and tunes for others worlds.

Koan No. 1

CottonJones / 1 page
Koan or a Zen Koan, are form of Chinese circular poetry with two subjects; in this case, infidelity and a web. Line one introduces the first subject; line 2, expands on it. Line 3, introduces the dependent subject and the 3 brings the turn, mora...

Repossession

CottonJones / 1 page

Fibonacci Sonnet No. I

CottonJones / 1 page
Cover credit goes to Selena Howard (Strongheart) and is a acrylic painting on canvas, 1988; all rights to the photo belong to her and cannot be reproduced without expressed permission from the artist. The Fibonacci sequence of numbers is the key ...

Breathtaking; Blank-verse Sonnet No. I

CottonJones / 1 page
This is a blank verse sonnet written with a octet and sestet.

The Culling

CottonJones / 1 page
This is an apocalyptic style poem written in the style of prophecy and is a lamentation.

Life Interruptus

CottonJones / 1 page
This is a poem using couplets and is part fiction and part true life adventure of drowning and falling through ice. Both events have happened to me, drowning and falling through ice, but this is a combinations of those two events written in one p...

Diamante 2

CottonJones / 1 page
This is my second Diamante poem I have written. The theme is opposites; end and beginning as you must know the beginning to face the end. Love, peace and freedom, Olan

Blank Verse: Master?

CottonJones / 1 page
The inspiration of this poem came from recent news of finding an ancient script that states Jesus had a wife and I was reminded of the Gnostic Gospel of Mary Magdalene (I have no opinion as to whether he was married or single, however), In the b...

Art's Head is Parted

CottonJones / 1 page
A constraint form I believe I have created, but i also know nothing is new under the sun so if you are familiar with this form let me know. i call it metamorphosis. A/N below the poem explains the style. Olan

Symbiont

CottonJones / 1 page
This poem deals with the kundalini energy of eastern philosophy that is our energy source and is equal to western term spirit (wind, invisible energy). The symbiont is believed to wrap itself around the spine and connects with each of the seven c...

Tornadic

CottonJones / 1 page
A quatrain poem about two opposing force in love with each other.