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Rattled Poems - Poems about Rattled

Your divorce
...With this demand you hoped to evoke in me the fear that made even your bones cold from exposer frail and bitter the sound they made as they rattled around at the knees. But You can not ow......

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Categories: rattled, betrayal, bullying, deep, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Juno
...Juno has dropped her Jupe for Janus— Moves unforeseen by Nostradamus. Jupiter's lightning rage Rattled Juno's last cage, But Janus is twice as dangerous.......

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Categories: rattled, break up, humor, mythology,
Form: Limerick



Darrell's Daughter
...Written By: D. Collins 6/4/25 Darrell's daughter has been down since it began. Showed more heart and courage than any man. A soldier amongst soldiers who r......

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Categories: rattled, daughter,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Gate Sprung, Shut
... I turned to look back, feeling anxious as I stood "by the squeaky old gate that tomorrow will find." Was there someone there watching me? The gate creaked shut, echoing the taint of guilt That ......

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Categories: rattled, cry, grief, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Wasn't Amber
...It wasn’t amber. It was light pretending to be amber because the leafless purple branches said so— their shadows crosshatched the window, twenty-four panes of silence. Distant shoes whispered......

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Categories: rattled, childhood, color, identity, light,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member AH MUSIC
...The music from an award’s show for music Shatters the peace of a moment’s respite Words shouted in a rattled cadence Battle the blaring of the backup screamers The allegedly soothing refrain chok......

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Categories: rattled, age, music,
Form: Free verse
The Cassette Player
... A plastic shell, a humble, clunky friend, The cassette player till the very end. With buttons worn and maybe some dust ingrained, A portal to the music it contained. The gentle hiss before......

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Categories: rattled, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
THE PERFECT BUFFET
...THE BLOODY PERFECT BUFFET.. There should be a perfect buffet A table for men A happy gathering for them The murders.... the killers of souls There should be a table for us After the long da......

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Categories: rattled, abuse, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Starling
...When I was small the starlings roosted one by one on grandma’s party line wire (like jittery black clothespins) to bandy their gossip back and forth until the wire hummed with their inanities.......

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Categories: rattled, bird, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Survivor
...I know how it feels to be unwanted ignored, made fun of and taunted beat up, spit on, embarrassed and disgraced abandoned betrayed and things thrown in my face denied, discouraged, used, then abu......

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Categories: rattled, abuse,
Form: Lyric
Old Codger
...Get thee hence! Get thee hence! Away the riffraff from my fence Ye've rattled window and rattled doors Till there's no peace upon the moors The hallowed folk have left their graves To rid themse......

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Categories: rattled, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Childhood Trauma That Creates a Serial Killer
... A bedroom door that never locked, Footsteps heavy like thunderclocks, Mother's wine glass, cracked and red, Words that bruised more than fists ever did. A closet full of whispered screams, A......

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Categories: rattled, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Agreement By The Sea
...The ship has been rocking from shore to shore battering over rough waves and endless seas that came to the restless shores more than fifteen years ago the temperature has risen to over a hundred ......

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Categories: rattled, america, animal, community, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Just Eight
...She was just eight when she stood at the gate Looking at the distant sun moving with the clouds while the trees rock with the speed of the wind and heavens composed a wonderful hymn, it was the S......

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Categories: rattled, absence, abuse, international, journey,
Form: Narrative
An Ultimatum
... An ultimatum stood at my door And greeted me so fondly To the tune of my thumping heartbeat. "Live as I seem or die as I am" The words had reverberated in my skull and rattled my bones- Si......

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Categories: rattled, depression, discrimination, introspection,
Form: Free verse

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