Best Rattle Poems

Ta'likra
was a most stubborn slave
He loved to rattle the chain
It was a sound of pure defiance
that echoed across the lush plantation terrain

Son of Antuk
had a pygmy burning bush spirit
He seethed silently
as the lashes dug deep into his back
The masters hoped the other slaves
would see this...

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I felt the ground move 
did you feel the earthquake too?
shake, rattle, and roll...

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I have died,
So many times,
More than most have lived...

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Butterflies in chest
Love in breast
Pass life’s test
Only in death...

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a small
        shuddering
gasp;
   his dying      b r e a t h...

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drainpipes rattle on
as the downpour cleans the walk
papier-mâché news
so much for coupons
today is full price...

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Footles Rattle

Far sky
So high
Hot sun
Not fun.
Naughty 
Haughty.
High price
New rise.
Top prize
Hopes rise.
Strong-willed
Long-grilled.
New ring 
News bring.
Don’t miss
Fond kiss.
Too shy
No try.

S.Jagathsimhan Nair
23rd jan 13

For Yasmin's 'Footle fun' contest...

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Pills, pills, they're coming out of my ears
I shake rattle and roll when I walk it appears
People just stare
Then lose all their cares
As they all join hands and shake their big rears


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Sit stubborn on your perch of heat
be still until I’m gone
my vigil won’t induce one note
toward your explosive song.

My absence sets your trigger
faint gurgling a shake
until great belches power on
a steamy shrill above the watery quake.

I’ll not come a running
because you give the nod
now YOU’LL...

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Fork ahead
                                           ...

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The tan ropes are rattlesnakes 
that tie and untie themselves, 
clumps of spines untangled
from earth, loops and S’s
curling, like damaged ribs.

My body is a tight cage that
the snakes move away from.
My hands: closed canyons, 
manzanita, sage leaves, moon-dew
marked by footprints.

I watch you pick one up,...

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BB's really rattle in the shell
Of a container,loose like bell
Clapper, hanging free to ding
Ideas rattle in poet's brain to ring

The audience, and awake from sleep
Oh! Into a new dimension of deep
Thoughts, understanding of heights above
The ordinary, into a new realm of love  (truth)


(Thank you...

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I`m gentle ,flexible but deadly,
Patient when I`m sober, aggressive when I`m hungry,
 Humans!They  think they are wise by setting 'trap',
'Trap' for me!but  I can see it,for this I hiss.....,
many think I`m weak,but with my arrow teeth
I go for the kill;and the venom flows...

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Okay what do you guys want me to write about?
I think I will write about nonsenseness
Is that a word? 
Don’t know
Do you ever dream of flying my friend?
I do all the time
And sometimes I even make it to become how I like it
My dream that...

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Beware Mr. Snake
  
  Poisonous tale...Rattle and Shake
   
    ~ Man...Your life's at stake....

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