Best Nettled Poems
Neverland
...On the south-western side of the old mission school,
near the corner of First Street, where blackberries grew
a field claimed by youngsters was crosshatched with tracks.
It was riddle......
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Categories:
nettled, childhood, nostalgia, places, western,
Form:
Narrative
The Sting of Nettled Showers
...To the sound of pelting rain, she woke in early morning
Upon the tattered tin roof, it rhythmically pitter pattered
No sunlight peeked through clouds on daylight's dawning
She thought of him a......
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Categories:
nettled, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Will Tell
...TIME WILL TELL
A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
Quiet corner of the galaxy. No foreseen surprise to ......
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Categories:
nettled, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Beyond Salvage
...An old herbal gard’ner turned bard
dedicated and well-versed
now works his pen from his backyard
in plants and poems immersed.
His choice nouns engender meaning
cleverly minted with scents.
R......
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Categories:
nettled, 11th grade, funny, humor,
Form:
Quatrain
Mocking the Dead
...Mocking the dead,
the vampire on the hill, high
above the cityscape. Why
does his cloak wrap around?
It moves with a hissing sound,
blackened on the outside,
blue on the molten graveside.
Sh......
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Categories:
nettled, dark,
Form:
Verse
The Raunchy Haunch
...“Quick smart struck onion!
You metronomous fishy tail!
You’ll not be taken in by me,
you fraudulent legume!”
I seemed to have soundly unsettled her
Set her mind cross firing, flailing
But it......
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Categories:
nettled, funny, husband, passion
Form:
Narrative
I Wait With Bated Breath
...I Wait With Bated Breath...
(slack jaw froze mine countenance
when eyes blinded with figurative
daggers asper mistakes in original draft,
hence...this flood proof, fire resistant,
and fever redu......
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Categories:
nettled, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Gold Rush Alaska
...Families sacrifice savings, every petty frill
Praying a lucrative grade to mill
Seeking a bartered shill
Greedy coffers to fill
Hopes and dreams to rill
Nuggets of fine gold to spill
On Porcupine cre......
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Categories:
nettled, adventure, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Life, the Interloper
...There is a small eternity
'Twixt my coming and my going.
Though it be filled with riddles
And words crawling in the mud,
Time is no interloper, and I freeze.
Up from the shale and storm,
Up f......
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Categories:
nettled, creation, life,
Form:
Free verse
How Can I
...My soul flies over hill and dales
Where rainbows sit in fairy tales
Butterflies dance pale blue skies
A skylarks throat love it cries
In open fields the grasses sway
Time and breeze doth gent......
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Categories:
nettled, sad
Form:
Rhyme
soft, sweet slumber -
...
oh, You ...
you found me again
unveiled amid the bosom of my dreams -
my consciousness peeled back
and flayed
tabled in a twilight mist
for the memories of you to feast upon
drowning i......
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Categories:
nettled, dream, lost love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Bled Out
...More things can happen or could have happened,
From a cold metal,
Sharpened in fine fettle,
Making skin nettled,
Damaging the mettles,
To keep minds unsettled,
Provoking to ask, if this is or i......
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Categories:
nettled, bullying, conflict, cry, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Nettled
...There is a young lady whose name is Nette
On a computer she places a bet
She opens accounts online
While drinking a glass of wine
Her passwords she forgets and gets upset.
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Categories:
nettled, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Psychomanteum
...Flee, my Heart! Leave this vessel, a husk of metal- my Spirit sick!
Now! Depart! No Conscious wrestled, decisions settled- fingers pricked!
A map to chart, my tested mettle, deeply nettled- the wou......
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Categories:
nettled, heart, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
The Courts Martial
...A tableau of brass sits with serious intent;
A Court it is of the martial bent.
And before it I stand stiff with pride,
I did my duty with nothing to hide.
My men they were , my very kind,
Har......
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Categories:
nettled, war,
Form:
Rhyme