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Rattlesnakes Poems - Poems about Rattlesnakes

Premium Member Backwater Junction
...Backwater junction in a backwoods town Rusty and creepier than a carnival clown Timber rattlesnakes hide their slanted eyes No one visits this woodpile, no big surprise......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Matriarchs are Molting Again
... Grandma’s ghost has taken up knitting rattlesnakes in the drapes. They hiss when someone lies. Now, my mother only speaks in noodle metaphors. I ask her how she is, and she replies, al......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, age, allusion, women, word
Form: Free verse



Premium Member LATE IN THE EVENING
...And I'm concerned, afraid, got the railroad crossing blues and the jazz that plays so low and desolation looms like the ghost of Christmas past/ And the band wraps up and it's time to go home but the......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Small Towns Between
...The town fathers are long neglected by scavenging vultures, locked up as they are, in the wood cabin, we call the town museum. Inside the shack, there are old tintypes, sepia photographs and t......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rattlekin
...Humans are like rattlesnakes, Mislead with their ability to buzz. Hide in brown texture and heat, Camouflage through their face.— A two sided tongue, talked out, Only and only venom is out. G......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



no answer no response 3
...18 I know there are no answers in Saint Germain des Prés Or in Copacabana, nor on the top of Everest, That’s why we’re listening to Albert Camus, That we eat frog legs, There is no respon......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, appreciation, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Acme
... Written: July 5th 2024 For Edward Ibah contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We didn't wish to climb afar and face rattlesnakes.  Sanguine torrents cling to a......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, analogy, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member thank you kratt brothers
...Chris and Martin brought us biology, zoology and ecology. They introduced scientific learning to us in a friendly, exciting way. We learned to observe, detect and investigate from them. Thank you ......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dying On the Last Turn
...Shared with Your friends Dying on the last turn I do know that good things have been done Maybe a nation has been saved or a great battle has been braved Could never right all wrongs From th......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, adventure, bird, death, rain,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Dangers Everglade Animals
...in the Everglades there are dangers galore alligators, crocs, rattlesnakes, and many more…. a cottonmouth aka water moccasin would scare me back to my car could be bitten by a brown recluse, looki......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surviving a Tornado
...I had seen photos of one of these whirlwind monsters This one was just a corn field away, and we were running Furiously furious, it sucked up livestock and farm equipment. There are probably rats ......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, wind,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My House Blew To Texas
...My house blew clear to Texas the cowboy said. His spittle hit a saddle, and my face turned red. He was crude for sure, but his stories were great. I waited to hear more, and it was worth the wait.......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Murder On a Perfect Day
... "Murder on a Perfect Day" Murdering the main instigator that metaphor perpetrator pulls the trigger this is the way a perfect day begins scattered on the wall bl......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, dark, death, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Triple Helix From the Hip
... "Triple Helix from the Hip" Triple helix stanzas strung together like pearls wisdom worn and swallowed like a pill sweet and bitter they evolve those othe......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, muse, poetry, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Forbearance Vast Spectrum
...How do I acquire a place where I can forgive? How can I stop blaming myself for my mistakes? I can't recall the version of "Intrinsic", but it's conflictive, None can quash them If yo......

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Categories: rattlesnakes, analogy, appreciation, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme

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