Best Blathering Poems
The Fallacy of 'Once Upon a Time'
...A fallacy, that every 'once upon a time'
is a beautiful fantasy, for some hold lies
Fairytales have a hero, but also a villain
masked in sheep's clothing as a disguise
Red Riding Hood ......
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Categories:
blathering, evil, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Barren Edge
...Where ... oh where
Are you??
Do I sink the darkness to find you ...
Clamber the divide?
If I plummet that black of oblivion
Will you be there ...
Waiting?
Admonishing?
You HAVE to be......
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Categories:
blathering, analogy, father, father son,
Form:
Free verse
At the Edge of the Precipice
...I do not know how men many we were
or how we went, what we saw on the way
nor do I know for what ungodly purport was ours
or what goaded us on into deeper uncharted territory
despite our tortur......
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Categories:
blathering, dark, fantasy, horror, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Living In World of Dinosaurs
...He does not notice the grimaces on his classmates' faces.
Or hear their deep sighs, or realize he is fixated on dinosaurs.
His discussions are one-sided, he does not need peers at all.
He does not......
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Categories:
blathering, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Narrative
Get To Work
...Men at work, bumper to bumper
tensile traffic, thick black bitumen.
Everything seems to last longer
then that grey granulated concrete
that extends from Bodega, Cali-
fornia to Savannah, Geor......
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Categories:
blathering, angst, funny, life, parody,
Form:
Quatrain
A Perfect Mystery
...The green light of meadows,
The wondrous songs of birds
and the inner silent mountains
continue to bring forth on earth
the most amazingly profound
arenas of Love and Beauty.
Alone,
they are a per......
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Categories:
blathering, visionary, light, light,
Form:
Verse
My Neighbor Is Obsessed With Me
...Helena has been rambling for nearly twenty minutes.
I have her blathering on speaker.
I barely listen as I paint my canvas.
Some conversation about her neighbor Ruth
Ruth wants her sister Cookie’......
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Categories:
blathering, friend,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Too Late
...Too late Charlie realized she should have listened to the internal voice
that had been yelling “NO!” when the large black truck stopped for them.
She knew it was now too late to get out, too late t......
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Categories:
blathering, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Speak Or Listen
...speak
wide mouth
talking blathering chatting
conversation, gossip, silence, quiet
learning, feeling, caring
mindful
listen......
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Categories:
blathering, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Diamante
I Got the Plate Number
...My friend Murphy is annoyed by her neighbors.
At first it was just the one who steps over the foul line in basketball.
All the time.
Which I thought was weird as Murphy weighs two-thirty and does ......
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Categories:
blathering, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Divine Intervention
...Yet not a question of if but when ? Humanity, you never could govern yourselves...
His pack of wild dogs ever running rabbid about these plains and time; ignorant towards
Your own demise; forever it ......
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Categories:
blathering, angel, art, autumn,
Form:
Strange Me
...Silence turned clamor,
blathering became brilliance,
demure gone shameless.
A ride back on April's night,
my emotions flux so high.......
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Categories:
blathering, anxiety, april, crazy, emotions,
Form:
Tanka
Victory Vigil
...He paces the floor
Waiting for a word
But the silence is deafening
Only his anxiety being heard
What is to come
What will be of this world
Who in their right mind
Would have a warrior be a g......
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Categories:
blathering, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Fifth Avenue Nocturne 1895: Childe Hassam
...i met a grey and we spoke briefly in the rain
it assured me that it was nothing like those fictional characters
that still buzzed in the minds of the “most intelligent species”
that it saw before ......
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Categories:
blathering, lifeme, me,
Form:
Free verse
Blood and Kin, Part I
...He walked into the dusty saloon,
maybe an hour after high noon,
his face still smooth with the touch of youth,
eyes dead-set on seeking out the truth.
He saw him there, two men at his side,
lo......
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Categories:
blathering, abuse, anger, conflict, dark,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry