Danny Wayne Cotton Poet · Songwriter · Screenwriter

16 poems

Poetry

By Danny Wayne Cotton

Free verse written between 2011 and 2015, most of it posted late at night. The coal country, the pool hall, the jailhouse bunk and the bar at closing time. Read them in order or pick one.

  1. Henry VIII (I had a Prose Poem assignment, I did this) / The Six Wives of Henry VIII 528 words
  2. Our Favorite Vegetable “1 (8oz) package of Macaroni” / Now…see, that isn’t specific enough, no 264 words
  3. Mlle. Laurine, la Fee Verte She’s very Clara Bow / She’s very Sally Bowles 234 words
  4. Melungeon Princess Dream Savannah, the Melungeon Princess and me / All lit our first or last 242 words
  5. Left hand english Why do I / keep scribbling 71 words
  6. You Don’t Wanna Be Ariel So, I had to watch Disney princess songs with my lil cousin. One song was just a montage of all of ‘em, or all of ‘em up to the point it was produced. It was markedly clear that Ariel was her favorite (or her favorite at that particular second) and she has just gotten into Snow and the Dwarves, which is kinda cool, but when the montage got to my favorite, I tried to influence her thinking a little. Then I wrote this down. / You Don’t Wanna be Ariel 173 words
  7. The 2000 Year Old Conversation “Why you think he said ‘eat of my body, drink of my blood/” / “I duno, man. “Maybe it was symbolic.” 110 words
  8. She’s a ‘red woman’ How come, when somebody said, / “she’s a ‘red woman, ‘ man 86 words
  9. Today’s Haiku If that one dances to / Van-Halen’s “Little Dreamer” 13 words
  10. Rocky and Dagger, On a Bad Friday Night (My Easter Poem) Once upon a time, / ‘round this time of night, 143 words
  11. It seems like she really likes me It seems like she really likes me, so I reminded her / “Be careful of something that’s just what you want it to be.” 142 words
  12. Jailhouse Vision of Angelina Again / In dreams 197 words
  13. In fifty words or less Women, / Beautiful, 45 words
  14. Type A I got a type A mind with a type B will / An itchy trigger finger that never can kill 190 words
  15. A shorthaired girl that speaks fluent french My buddy, / he bets she’s wild 136 words
  16. 120 Years of Coal We got a hundred and twenty years of coal. / Six more generations callin’ Hazard home, 126 words