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Best Rattling(A) Poems

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A Rattling Rhyme
SHE’s COMING AGAIN!

There’s a chill in the air
There’s a word on the street
Be afraid have a care
Put the children to sleep 
She was gone, bells...

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Categories: rattling(a), political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Snow Globe
Welcome to my ----- life
A beautifully broken aura
             Unsettled flakes
   ...

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Categories: rattling(a), confusion, death, dream, future,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Shadows In My Mind
Darkness brings the shadows
Of places I have been
Memories loom in corners
Rattling in the wind
Sometimes whispers haunt me
Never letting go
Race across the star shine
Answers left unknown
Reaching...

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Categories: rattling(a), dark,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Sex After 40
(WARNING  SIGNS)

You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...

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Categories: rattling(a), body, change, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Another Day Safe From the Harvester's Jaws
Out of the burrows and hedges and dreys
Heads came a bobbing in frantic relays.
Rumours were twittered and grunted and squealed:
‘The Harvester’s coming to furrow the...

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Categories: rattling(a), angst, animal, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Luxury of Ordinary
Today was a good day

Today he walked on legs unbent
And erect spine of a man intent

On stilling the cacaphony of monotony
And smoothing the callouses of...

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Categories: rattling(a), cancer, hope, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Images of Feathers
"Once upon a midnight Poe"

Underneath the midnight mask, I remove the makeup at last,
The moon is an anvil to my mood, mooring along the vacant...

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Categories: rattling(a), allusion, devotion, loneliness, muse,
Form: Alliteration
Spider Songs
Blades of grass, wet under foot, insect eyes  
Dusk, offset by the cricket orchestra 
Muted and receding into the trees and bushes,
Tickled by the...

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Categories: rattling(a), animal, girl, metaphor, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Task
The old screen door still welcomes me, a familiar song I've heard before..
But oddly now, it's out of tune, a strange new wail of some...

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Categories: rattling(a), death, friendship, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Devil Made Me Do It
It had been a long night, an hour drive just to be with my sister. One must stay in touch with family; it’s the right...

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Categories: rattling(a), anger, feelings, relationship,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Sunday Morning
Sunday Morning
I try not to wake him, though he stirs slightly
As I crawl out from the warmth of the covers.
I'm tempted to change my mind,...

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Categories: rattling(a), child, children, family, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Stand
An ancient twilight tree now stands alone
with weakened cries of olden creak and groan;
winter’s rattling winds do rise and shake it - 

in stark silhouette...

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Categories: rattling(a), age, death, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Recollections of a Condemned Man - Collaboration With Robert Lindley
178 months, 129940 hours,
now only 10 minutes remain.
Sitting in cold eerie darkness,
he observes the rhythm of water drops,
slowly wipes away streams of sweat
with his withered...

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Categories: rattling(a), death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fleeing Emptiness
Moon is still behind glum clouds
Sullen is the garb of a silent sky
So much like how he feels tonight
Anxious in the night laden in dark

Stars...

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Categories: rattling(a), anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
On a Ballroom of Stars
When I feel alone
a gypsy soul without a home

When nobody 's there 
with warmth  to share
When rattling rains are all I hear

I close my...

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Categories: rattling(a), beautiful, emotions,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs