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Best Startle Poems

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Premium Member Rise and Shine
 
Written: January 09, 2024
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A glimpse of a lavish dawn graced with hail,
Thorn sparkles and...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: startle, analogy, appreciation, flower, garden,
Form: Quatrain



Childhood Dreams Part 1
When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read...

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Categories: startle, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Cathedral Spiritual
Pink and grey walls rise like castle parapets
Reflecting the sunrise in golden hues
I ride along the canyon to the sound of leather
Creaking softly in the...

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© Lena Pate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: startle, natureblue, blue,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Premium Member The Raven of Baptism River
Far as my eyes can see, 'till lake touches sky,
Earth beats as one; Poplar, Jack Pine & Birch all
Sing with the White Throated Sparrow, our...

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Categories: startle, nature,
Form: Prose
Flora Crescendo In Hawaii
I believe that long ago, the universe’s most artistic landscaper mixed woodlands with tropics, mountains with heaths, and streams with waterfalls that were next blended...

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Categories: startle, beauty, nature, paradise, universe,
Form: Haibun



Late At Night
Watching me with those creepy eyes, i hear noises of a man who cries, 
you are back again to startle me, with your demonic hands...

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Categories: startle, imaginationme, fear, me,
Form: Lyric
Here, As the Dark City Glistens
Here, as the dark city glistens 

Here, as the dark city glistens,
rain pelts unsuspecting sidewalks,
filling cracks and running gutters
Disguising stoic potholes in black,
snickering as they...

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Categories: startle, loneliness, sad,
Form: Free verse
(1) I Defy All the Obstacticle's (Believing In Prayer's)
I thought I couldn't make it, I thought, there's no-need in trying to fake it. I thought I
couldn't make it, couldn't even if I tried....

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Categories: startle, depressiondesire, love, me,
Form: Narrative
Murmur of the Wind
she feels cold, chilled,
as though an icy frost
has blanketed her..

it is mid summer
the sun is scorching
vibrant hues of orange..

yet she feels numb
her pain is not...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: startle, hope, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring's Sweet Reality
She wanders to a dream, a place
Where weeping willows brush her face
Beneath the branches bending low 
She's walking where a garden grows

Grass gently sways, as...

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Categories: startle, dream, nature, spring, dream,
Form: Free verse
Approach Me Slow Or I Will Go
I am like a fragile deer
Approach carefully and beware
Not to startle me or I
Will run off, I'm very shy
If your slow and really quiet
With your...

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Categories: startle, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild Nature
WILD NATURE

         Far from squabble of snobbish sniffy people
        ...

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Categories: startle, how i feel, nature,
Form: Free verse
Loquacity
Rendezvous
Folly or fact
Wondering, Waiting…
Whispering winds foretell
Thunder soon will follow--
Pulses electric sing through my belly
Joy Wasp-Darts
        tzzz
  ...

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Categories: startle, beauty, blessing, imagery, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Destruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen Grounds
Destruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen Grounds


Goddess of Destruction that teams with the Lord of Lusts 
As wrathful winds bequeath savage ravaging gusts
Hades match, ...

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Categories: startle, art, conflict, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Bonding
parakeet perched on finger
I repeat words
to make mine his
capturing his gaze
does he know what they mean
does he know what pretty means
that he is pretty
is he...

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Categories: startle, bird, childhood, pets,
Form: Free verse

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