Jenna Cornell
CONTACT:
Email: jennajcornell@gmail.com
BIO:
Jenna Cornell is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. She is a professor at both Lakeland University and Lakeshore Technical College; and is in radio broadcasting with Cumulus Broadcasting. She writes in a variety of areas including journalism, songwriting, poetry, fiction, playwriting, and film. Her poems have been published in several print and online publications including Mirrored Voices: Best Modern Poets (Vol 4), Sheepshead Review, Blaze Vox, and Northern Lights Journal. Her first collection of poems Fantastic Illusions of Life, Love, the Birds, and the Bees was published in 2015. Jenna's most recent short story, 'Mastering the Fine Art of Time Management', was published in The Remembered Arts Journal in 2017, and her spoken-word film Words has been shown at multiple film festivals during 2018 and 2019.
PUBLICATIONS:
2019: Medusa Underground Film Festival (spoken word film)
2018: Wildwood Film Festival, Film Girl Film Festival, Women’s Entertainment Film Festival, Rebel Minded Festival (spoken word film)
2015: Fantastic Illusions of Life, Love, the Birds, and the Bees (poetry collection)
Poetry
Serious Midnight
Let me tremble like a flower
in the moonlight.
Open my petals slowly.
Reveal my vulnerability
in your luminescent grasp.
Fall down upon
the soft carpet of grass
in the garden of the gods.
Eros would be envious of your prowess
Aphrodite jealous of your skill.
And I, I am a Psyche searching for my love
to whom I am bound for eternity.
Are you my love?
Your serious moonlight seduces me.
Shackles my heart to you.
Relinquishes my soul
and all that is in it.
Like a butterfly
I wrap my wings around you.
Kiss your soft lips.
Gaze into majestic eyes.
Succumb to love's lustful caress.
In this garden of the gods
under the moonlight
I lose myself
with no desire to return.
Midnight Sea
Let's dance across the midnight sea.
Where stars collide.
Where it’s only you and me.
Where fire-tailed eagles dive
amongst the celestial
bodies flow. A moonlit
waltz, to then fro amidst
the ever-present glow.
The tango twist in raptured twilight.
Where constellations dare.
Where arrows fill the night.
Where teasing whips of gas fare
amongst the giant
spheres abound. A sunlit
rumba swings hips round amidst
the silent-black sound.
The quickstep flicker in dark blue night.
Where dreams surpass.
Where fairies and sprites ignite.
Where red dragons flash
amongst the stardust
hearts transfix. A starlit
samba where bodies kiss amidst
the heavenly-dotted mix.
Let's dance across the midnight sea.
Where stars collide.
Where it’s only you and me.
Where star-crossed lovers glide
amongst the translunar
ocean. A moonlit
bolero pivots left motion amidst
the extraterrestrial devotion.