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Rattle On Poems - Poems about Rattle On

Premium Member Faithful Teddy
...From the inside of music I looked out far The sky was cloudy, preparing for rain Sir Rattle on the Mezzo played Sir Elgar The air fumed sour like the dead champagne I went for the memories, to s......

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Categories: rattle on, longing, loss, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shakespeare 1
...“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Waiting for the dentist’s assessment of my implant screw. I watch Dogw......

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Categories: rattle on, angst, april, emotions, word
Form: Rhyme



You Can't Die, If You Are Already Dead
... The streets are quiet, no waves left to break on the shores of the silent, No blood on the curb to draw the stray dogs. A stray wind blows through the darkest of alley's like you it forgets w......

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Categories: rattle on, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Night On the Beach
...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs in fluorescent foam. Blue pods rattle on green tides. Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair washing tangled ankles. There are voices in my open mouth, they roll ove......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Night At a Tumbling Edge
...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs in fluorescent foam. Blue pods rattle on green tides. Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair washing tangled ankles. There are voices in my open mouth, they roll ove......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Seven Days a Week
...I scratch symbols out of a matted beard. Fingertips as smooth as wave-worn pebbles rattle on an invisible shoreline, the sound is a kind of speech a language that only spume and spray understand.......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Chimes
...Clear crystals eat iron voices. The wind dies; its bones rattle on. A stealing wind moves many loose tongues, but where? "Where' is not the question but a movement, a rapport pealing fr......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Party
...standing playing a part apart at the party out of water fish swim together forgot that there are no balloons just arty talk the occasional sing at blue collar america elbows sharpen......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snakey
...I first saw Snakey in my flower garden. I had moved a large rock and he was curled up under it. There were some beautiful X’s in his pattern. I did not want to know if there was a rattle on his bu......

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Categories: rattle on, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
November Time Slip
...It snowed last night; taking out the trash, there I am, dozing in a garden swing set deep within July. It could be another year. July in a London park lying next to her, wisps of gentleness ......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Party
...standing playing a part apart at the party out of water fish swim together forgot that there are no balloons just arty talk the occasional sing at blue collar america elbows sharpen......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flickering Flames
...In a warm bath tub, you and me, bath salts,bubbles,perfumed water, naked together, knee to knee, trickles time, faster and faster! Touch of soft skin in aqua warm, passions aflame, forest fire......

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Categories: rattle on, death, feelings, for her,
Form: Rhyme
The Three Messengers
...She is older now, so I let the small things go. She’s not wiser than she was, yet how the stories flow. I let her spin them out for the fifteenth time today. My ear grows tired of the noise and tu......

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Categories: rattle on, age, mother,
Form: Rhyme
The Former Ghost
...In the kitchen she sits on a three-legged stool. She died in the living room, her heart burst, and out flew all the skills of her hands. Now she cooks the twilight between the days, the dried fr......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dark Night Shopping
...Faces come at me as stricken as graveyard moons. The supermarket hangs heavy, laden as it is with neon anchors. The aisles are runways for empty eyes, a few sections contain searching bodies. ......

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Categories: rattle on, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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