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Rattler Poems - Poems about Rattler


Premium Member maybe a snake
snakes on a wall rattlers all three no pictures or any pretty things just demon scalps no they're not evil I ate the big one he was old and rough three days from pay day half a tank two shotgun shells no mourning doves and there he was yuck they're better young taste like chicken and not so tough won't shoot 'em anymore just shoe 'em off the porch little bullsnake last night on the patio...

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Categories: rattler, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Even the Snakes and the Bloody Moon
sweet pungent fermented hay dark and warm slithers of light spit through the cracks of the warped weathered wood old pie tin lies in the dirt in its corner where the mean old bull snake drank milk with the cats and kept the rats and rattlers at bay there's a buzzing and a hissing on the other side of this rickety door inside...

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Categories: rattler, destiny,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rattler of Diet Tips and Warnings
A strange woman blasted into the family reunion Came in loud and crass; obnoxious. Showing off. No one knew her. I was selected to ask her to leave. Mom! She said. It was one of my foster children from way back when. I did not recognize her. She had been a porker but she had slimmed up And gotten two feet taller. She picked...

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Categories: rattler, humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Rattling the Rattler
a baby hit a rattler with its rattle the rattler was startled so it rattled the babe loaded a diaper and perfumed the pit viper that's how a babe beat a snake in battle...

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Categories: rattler, baby, food,
Form: Limerick
Rattler In a Good Mood
Rondezvous with death You hear the rattle warning Move back so slowly One strike, no getting away- Snake chose to be nice today. A. Green...

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Categories: rattler, animals
Form: Tanka




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