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Best Prattling Poems

Below are the all-time best Prattling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of prattling poems written by PoetrySoup members


Of Road Rage and the Poetrysoup Profanity Policy
As Joe was biking down the side of the road
He ran across a chap with a dearth of driving skills.  
Or more accurately, the...

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Categories: prattling, anger, conflict, culture, funny,
Form: Light Verse



Punching Preachers
two bible-blabbering, prattling pastors

   from two denominational sectors

      ended up in stitches and bloody plasters;


those around said it...

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Categories: prattling, introspection, people, social,
Form: Terza Rima
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...

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Categories: prattling, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
No Bowing Before This Queen-A Collaboration
There's one who acts like a righteous queen
Prattling peacock, she loves to pose and preen
She is surly and gruff
Heckling slurs with a huff
And denouncing the...

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Categories: prattling, parody,
Form: Limerick
Spooks Were Making Love
Spooks were making love their bones were clattering
                 ...

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Categories: prattling, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Remarks and Barks
Soft as quicksand is the ground beneath the feet
   of those whose words attempt to rile and defeat

Thrown stones cause few ripples before...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prattling, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Tribute To a Lady
Sometimes at evening when the sun goes down
I light a little candle all ready for love
I am older than Luther, soul of soul unbound
I bridge...

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Categories: prattling, wifeheart, heart,
Form: Verse
World Gone Mad
World gone mad

Shots are fired, young kids expired
Schools are closed, no educators hired
Diseases spread, haven't you read
Land mines sown, too scared to tread
Where will it...

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© John Birch  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prattling, conflict, corruption, culture, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Allah and Buddha Were Talking
You know what I think sometimes?
said Allah to Buddha,
Of course you do
and yet you don't.

I think I gave this gift of language
because you have a...

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Categories: prattling, body, health, mentor, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Hero
The virtue was being wronged, depicted his woeful tale of prey and innocence. 
Gradually people gathered to listen to the poignant rhetoric. 
blown away by...

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Categories: prattling, betrayal, character, crazy, devotion,
Form: Burlesque
The Hen House
Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant 
dwells amongst an elder net 
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque 
of old folks, only a portion of population I...

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Categories: prattling, care, class, environment, farewell,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Quiet
I raise my glass and pen to give a toast,
(For the all random thoughts that fill your sheets?)
No man, for poets that inspire me most,
Like...

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Categories: prattling, on writing and words,
Form: Ottava rima
The Enemy of Progress
The enemy of progress
those whose blood is hostile
and their eyes hold a sword
to the relative
to the friends
who are below them in possession
those who fail to...

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Categories: prattling, abuse,
Form: Free verse
13, West Macott Road
13, West Macott Road

My limbs are weak and body old,
Tired am I and withered are my bones,
The skin has wrinkled and is quickly peeling off,
The...

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Categories: prattling, allusion, children, death, environment,
Form: Narrative
Men Walking Like Trees
I am a witness, a living witness
Tell the Sanhedrin I have tongue for sale
For all evening
Through thunder, hail, and rain
I have seen her dancing
Like a...

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Categories: prattling, history,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs