Rattlings Poems


Premium MemberTwo Old Gods

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Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and crisscross...
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Categories: rattlings, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Pan's Frolicsome Guffaw

...Pan’s Frolicsome Guffaw

’Tis the eve of The Equinox.

Methinks I hear midst Boreas’ frozen rattlings,
an unsticking of great Pan’s frolicsome guffaw;
a cheering hint of his sweet pipe!

The ...
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Categories: rattlings, spring,
Form: Blank verse


Concord Massachusetts Passingways

...Haunted...
glowing foot falls on the dusted wooden planks cross the bridge
following them 
I swing around enormous trees 
skirt quickly...trying to catch up

were we holding hands as we walked
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Categories: rattlings, funeral, garden, history, i
Form: Free verse

Two Old Gods

...TWO OLD GODS

Two old men.
That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and cri...
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Continue reading...
Categories: rattlings, death, old, old, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Obtrusive Skies.

...I never challenged the obtrusive skies
Nor destituted the benevolent earth
With tender warmth I sensed the whole
When each stone became endeared to soul.

Held voices in many hands
Sang with th...
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Categories: rattlings, passion
Form: Lyric


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