A flutter of wings rattles heart strings
A flutter stirs in my chest,
Awaking it from its inattentive rest.
As a tiny butterfly wing unfurled,
To unleash a quake in nether world.
Such chaos reeks as tremor grows,
It billows and flaps as tempest bestows,
An effect far beyond what reason deserves,
From a flip of wing, hors d'oeuvres.
A simple glance, a glint from eye,
Triggers my heart to offbeat
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Categories:
rattles, emotions, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Bitter Rattles Are Brazen Battles
I should like to take Bitter Rattles
As in their own right Brazen battles …
Intensely, The Speaker is flowing,
Whether or not with eyes glowing;
Also riotously, he is thinking
And as riotously blinking,
A nearby child to start yellowing
And into its shell burrowing;
Panicked sows not farrowing,
For as long as he isn’t mellowing
And down issues narrowing,
His
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Categories:
rattles, anger, break up, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Death Jars, Nixes, and Rattles Mine Sense and Sensibilities
Father now journeys
into afterlife destination alone,
October 7th, 2020 mid afternoon
with Earthlings ministration did attone
where night envelops his lovely bones
rendered devoid of any groan
courtesy Roxanol (morphine)
and Ativan finding him prone
to experience painlessness, and no
his dying wish, plus last will and testament
won't include burial and/or headstone
cuz, he wants to integrate and did intone
cremation as ecologically friendly option
scattering
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Categories:
rattles, absence, confusion, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Rattles, Bleats and Repeats
Don't call it a carry-on
It may not fit under a seat
Nor an overhead bin item
Loose -- it rattles, bleats and repeats
You might well ask airlines
Their fee for a walking cane...
Why, there's no charge at all; they're free
They're what? ~ Are airlines gone insane?
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Categories:
rattles, crazy, flying, money, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Spoke Rattles
White bike
spray painted
by dad
but the spoke rattles
and hot pink reflectors
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Categories:
rattles, lost love
Form: Free verse