Best Rattlesnakes Poems
The Dark Green Conifers
...another day in the woods. on Strawberry ridge
looking out over undulating green hills to
the next great wall of mountains. the last
morning clouds left from last night's storm
hanging in the vall......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, day, green, inspiration, morning,
Form:
Verse
Who's Who At the Zoo
...Anacondas crush to pieces
Bisons sport long shaggy hair
Cheetahs are the fastest species
Dolphins leap into the air
Elephants have large incisors
Fennec foxes, ears like Spock
Great white shark......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, animal,
Form:
ABC
Witchcraft
...Now here’s a tale spun with rattlesnakes
Stung into the eyes of motherless guilt
Now turn the head! Open the mouth!
For all to see, and so, too, that more shall fit!
The tainted vapors from our b......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, fantasy
Form:
Free verse
The Grand Canyon
...From the Painted Desert, head west
Past sagebrush, brittle bush, desert scrub
And The Petrified Forest at rest
To the Rocky Mountains above
Go past the Continental Divide
Below Douglas firs and ......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, adventure, america, animal, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Yodelin' Cowboy
...Hank was a hard workin' cowpoke who really earned his meager pay.
He rode his ass Old Red from early dawn 'til at night he hit the hay,
Fixin' fences, ropin' steers and brandin' dogies in the old c......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Tombstone
...Whistle does the lone desert winds, flowing downwards from
Boot hill cemetery, in icy chilling breeze full of echoing voices,
From the past, begging for redemptions last chance of salvation.
Roll ......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, fantasy, gothic, halloween, holiday,
Form:
Free verse
I'M A-Hangin' Up My Spurs
...Hank had cowboyed and rodeoed fer nigh on forty years,
Ridin' in sleet, rain and snow a-herdin' cantankerous steers.
His hide was tough as leather and his legs was slightly bowed,
But brandin' dog......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowboys In the Badlands
...Cowboys in the Badlands
Out West, across the great divide
great open spaces oceans wide.
Beauty in these badlands does hide
everything fights us as we ride.
Last stop, was exciting wild Abi......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, beauty, creation, dedication, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Murder On a Perfect Day
...
"Murder on a Perfect Day"
Murdering the main
instigator that
metaphor perpetrator
pulls the trigger
this is the way
a perfect day begins
scattered on the wall
bl......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, dark, death, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
Shadow Over You
...Talk to me
Creosote poisons
Rattlesnakes bite
And the white bird sings
In the night
There’s a hollow in the night
Following the footsteps
Your eyes are cryptic
You got a shadow over you
I can see ......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, evil,
Form:
Triple Helix From the Hip
...
"Triple Helix from the Hip"
Triple helix
stanzas
strung together
like pearls
wisdom worn
and swallowed
like a pill
sweet and
bitter
they evolve
those othe......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, muse, poetry, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
In the Desert
...In The Desert
In the desert walks a man with no name
within its barren sands he seeks no fame
Survival is his only wish and only game
all burns, sticks or crawls nothing is tame
The rattle......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, beauty, earth, image, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
This Land Is My Land
...Pastoral country
Where folks wave to passers by--
Farmers plowing
Exit 386
Wal-Mart, fast foods, and hotels--
Tourists stop
Modern businesses
Of every type one might need--
The short road to town
......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, happiness, life, places, social,
Form:
Haiku
A Desert Walk
...Let me tell you a story of Nature
and my early morning walks in the
desert. The fragrance of cactus blossoms
and the starkness of its beauty beckon.
Or, is it the silence, like no other, interr......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, adventure, animal, appreciation, beauty,
Form:
Narrative
"sweat Lodge"
...Satan over the years has been known for tricks and deception
Not only covering up what he is doing, but what he has done
One has to give him credit as he is very successful, but beware
He and his ......
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Categories:
rattlesnakes, native americanold, people, old,
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