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Best Prattling Poems


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 driver almost ran over Joe; 
'Twas one of life’s unwanted thrills.

A ......

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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 actually began

   when one yelled, "faith......

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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 unde......

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Categories: prattling, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



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 life-saving vaccine

The ......

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Categories: prattling, parody,
Form: Limerick
Spooks Were Making Love
...Spooks were making love their bones were clattering
                       Fresh in after death sex they were a prattling
                                 They missed the first session
           ......

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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 they sink
   Crass sycophants fill their pens with deli......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prattling, analogy,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Taming the Nightmare
...April Brooks was four years old, prattling a blue streak, like comets;
Or backwards walking time, seizing swiftly, days of golden promise.

April lived with parents and older sister, in th......

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Categories: prattling, fantasy, imagery, love, mother,
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 desire with Bee Gees, and move
To your ears to whisper......

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Categories: prattling, wifeheart, heart,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dusty Box of Memories
..."Photographs escort us to hidden recesses of memory and bring before us rare moments lost in time"... By Poet

Flitting through the pages of an old album,
Picked up from an abandoned dusty box, 
......

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Categories: prattling, home, i miss you,
Form: Free 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 end, this world g......

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© John Birch  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prattling, conflict, corruption, culture, earth,
Form: Free verse
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 the felon's aching, awful narration;
pit......

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Categories: prattling, betrayal, character, crazy, devotion,
Form: Burlesque
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 uniquely humanurtured gift
of comprehending
......

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Categories: prattling, body, health, mentor, political,
Form: Political Verse
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 met
which achey, flaky, kooky m......

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Categories: prattling, care, class, environment, farewell,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member The Smell of Fear - Collaboration
...Alien talk I can’t understand
A Pifflewig performed a handstand
He verbalised through his ass
Gross putrid wind he did pass
Like many blokes throughout the land!

I farted, perhaps ......

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Categories: prattling, humorous, space,
Form: Limerick
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 Bryon, Whitman, Shelley, Keats and Yeats.
(Right! Your head......

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Categories: prattling, on writing and words,
Form: Ottava rima

Book: Reflection on the Important Things