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Clattered Poems - Poems about Clattered

What Remains
...She sang me to sleep with a voice like flint— sparks tucked beneath lullabies. Spoons clattered in the sink like cymbals in a warning. She kissed my grazed knee, then asked why I always fa......

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Categories: clattered, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dreams Wrapped in Fairy Dust
... Written: January 08, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Creeping softly through the iron gate. I can't belie......

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Categories: clattered, analogy, dream,
Form: Rhyme



Skeleton's Dance
...In the moonlit glade where the whispers fade, A skeleton danced 'neath the sky's arcade. With a grin so wide, And eyes that had died, It twirled where the grass met the shade. Its bones cl......

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Categories: clattered, dance, halloween, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Untitled
...I thought I’d watched all Night but the big Moon and thousand small Stars must’ve quietly clattered to the low Eastern Sky. To combine to rise as Sun. My eye’s must’ve slept a wink.......

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Categories: clattered, sky, sleep, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Mere Step at a Time
...When life's journey folds in on itself, Becomes a jumble, in clattered confusion, it's wise to hold back, and stall the footfall. To disassemble the journey and saga, into it's component parts, ......

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Categories: clattered, journey, time,
Form: Free verse



My tears follow when I see you dad
...I've been just away for two days. When I see mom my smile shows. But when I see you standing there with the suitcase I use to drive on and the hat you told me you loved to wear. My heart dropped. ......

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Categories: clattered, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Doll
...There once was a doll Bruised and battered Slanted on a wall Like it never mattered. The doll once mattered When the girl was small And her dreams weren't shattered As she was yet to fall. ......

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Categories: clattered, childhood, death, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dwelling In Darkness
...The scattered dreams without a goal The shattered seams within my soul I ever vow to spark in hell Forever now in darkness dwell What mattered most I turned away A clattered ghost I sp......

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Categories: clattered, dark,
Form: Rhyme
He Loved Pianios
...Bechstein, Blüthner, Steinway or Fazioli, even an archaic Pianoforti, long had he craved to play them all. He was in love with their shape and sheen, their sweeping contours, their circuit bodies......

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Categories: clattered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SHE TOOK SANTA FOR A RIDE
... She took Santa for a ride in her red Ferrari. He had told her he needed a pick-me-up. She drove like the devil, was short like an elf. He was fattened by cookies, not at all himself. W......

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Categories: clattered, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Early Bird
...My arrival beat the sunrise; it was still dark at the small jetty. I dried the wet skiff, mind alert to the soon to be lifting light. Nearby, an unseen water bird clattered into the darkness.......

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Categories: clattered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Solitary Confinement 1
...SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 1 : Number Four Many chains, many locks and bars clattered at four in the morning black bitter coffee drugged a single bucket of cold water it was winter ......

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Categories: clattered, africa, body, character, emotions,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Train Ride
...Clickity clack, clickity clack the sound keeps coming back I remember the ride, had time to bide, as the train clattered along. We swished and swirled further beyond the burbling golden pond......

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Categories: clattered, onomatopoeia, pain, scary, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Tenement Years
...Reared in ruins, & East London brick dust, lard spread on bread. My figure daubed by days of oil and dirt, a boy by railroad tracks - wrong side. Trains clattered past pumping smutty fumes. ......

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Categories: clattered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hottest Boots Around
...I was the hottest boot in Texas, Missouri, and Cheyenne. I could dance the mumble jumbles off every other man. My mate, my wife, my lover, was almost as sexy as me. We could not be stopped once st......

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Categories: clattered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification

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