Short Rattlers Poems

show me that cool trick again on how to die ~ said joey to his mum

only this time she didn't reply ~ yet still obliged from a rattlers tum


By
David Kavanagh
hms...

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Venomous snakes, hard rains savage
   Mercury, Venus and Mars
hissing like boas and rattlers
   plunging into rocky reservoirs

On Earth, gentle rains dance lightly
   atop welcoming green lawns
Perfuming Spring's warm, soft air
   refreshing the world at dawn...

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I don't chirp very much... anymore.
I prefer to show case this journey in stanza.
Those open-ended cages that shooting stars and rattlers 
occasionally escape from.

I choose not to be around the "them."
the earth stream is cascading with "them"
the users 
the flame throwers of hurt and abuse
the spoilers of the soul
Polluters of good dreams.

I prefer to nest in a maelstrom of verse,
and the wonderful shadows they breed....

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SNAKES IN RURAL PENNSYLVANIA

The snakes in his head 
were timber rattlers, easily
agitated, disinclined to fight,
their rattling a warning to all
before slipping away silently from 
conflict or harm
Unfortunately for the fortunate son
his bride to be was a young copperhead,
golden brown and beautiful on the
dark forest floor among the stones and
wet soil of a Blue Mountain summer, 
and unlike the rattler she was silent
and aggressive, looking for a fight!...

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