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Prattles Poems - Poems about Prattles

The New Yorker

...The New Yorker is having a birthday – 
It’s made it to one hundred years.
With each story, cartoon, poem or essay,
It’s jump-started many careers.

Despite what it’s called, you can buy it
At n...
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Categories: prattles, appreciation, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Brownie

...Battered tattered 
Worn and torn

Her joys and fears 
Pain and tears

Throughout the years

Across the sands you helped her carry
Over water you helped her ferry 

All her worry all her ca...
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Categories: prattles, best friend, child,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberLofty Doppler Trimeric

...Lofty phrases echo the quagmire,
labyrinthine there’s no easy exit;
Treading water but still feel I’ll sink,
intricacy leaves me meandering;

Labyrinthine, there’s no easy exit
for what prattle...
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Categories: prattles, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other

Man wants

...The paradigm of endearment,
less expressed, less explained.

Our tales of delusion,
Prattles of “what ifs”.
What does a man want?
A healthier morning, 
more loving than nights,
pointing const...
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Categories: prattles, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDisassociating Dissonance

...Lost -
Through an Eagle's eye
Over Fields of plenty
Where rivers and creeks
Never run dry
But I can't feel it

Mountains rising up
Touching the pink, blue,
And rustic orange skies.
I just d...
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Categories: prattles, depression, lost, mental health,
Form: Free verse



The Bargaining Wench

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                      Bustling Tavern, din of thieves, 
         prattles sounds, like mini battles
 of Sorcery, at mosaic of vomit tapestry.

               Endowing all sorts in your bosom
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Categories: prattles, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Lament of An Unbiased Breeze From a War Field

...Cutest prattles of children I adore
Are now the loudest cries I bear
Oh, No! The grieves of these abandoned souls
The worst sounds I have ever heard

Mesmerizing songs of endemic ...
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Categories: prattles, angst, conflict, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse

Tax Payment and Tax Payers

...This many guys dislike its mention
Including an owner of mansion,
From avowed lover walking away
And next time block his coming their way…

For even the steadfast tax payer
Regular payment not ...
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Categories: prattles, business, hate, integrity, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEmpty Nest

...Time crawled silently on soft paws.
After years of anxious waiting,
Our little nest became alive, 
With childish pranks and prattles
Two adorable boys ran round playfully,
Making our...
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Categories: prattles, absence, home, how i
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHis Bona Fides Unstained

...Mr. John Kerry is not to blame
As he prattles on about climate change --

   "Much more important!" he warns, "than Ukraine"
    Thus keeping his woke bona fides unstained --

          Forgett...
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Categories: prattles, humor, rain, satire, sick,
Form: Rhyme

The Patrol

...We booked on the radio as was the way
And out the station we drove away
The radio prattles its continual banter
As we policed the streets at a slow canter

There were disturbances some loud but ...
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Categories: prattles, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Madness Changes All

...the earth cannot live without mad!-
someone said

the earth is alive for the madness of her dwellers
I say

sometimes I think –everyone is mad
in breathing, in speaking, in writing
in walking...
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Categories: prattles, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

My Blood Runs In You

...Suddenly I came like a wrecking ball
Breaking all the bonds that binds your soul
I’m like the earth, the wind and the rain
Washing away your pains in pain
You couldn’t help the afflicted because ...
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Categories: prattles, africa, beautiful, strength,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPretty Talker

...I watch her lipstick mouth; it never stops
its movement as she prattles on and on.
And now another famous name she drops,
her daddy’s latest client, known as John
by only his close friend...
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Categories: prattles, woman,
Form: Sonnet

The Withered Dream

...Darkness, darkness everywhere
Like a warm blanket in winter
Like the shell of an oyster
Darkness, white and grey and blue and red 
Darkness makes me wildly mad

The old banyan tree has ...
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Categories: prattles, age, loneliness, old,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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