Short Rattlesnakes Poems

This is
My home
Evergreen trees
Stinging honeybees
County fairs
And summer air
The history around
Is quite renowned
This is
My home

In this state
There are rattlesnakes
And deep blue lakes
Open praries
Farms for dairy
Mountains high
And winters dry
In this place
I live...

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We are the rattlesnakes
The mighty mighty rattlesnakes
We bite you if you make mistakes
We are the mighty mighty rattlesnakes

We slither out of timbers, out of closets and worse
We refuse to pay a king taxes from our wallet or our purse.
We will give you nightmares. You will flinch from our bite.
We are the rattlesnakes, primed and ready for a fight....

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Puppies kitties hamsters birds and bunnies
All give us a reason to celebrate
all animals are all such sweet honeys
happiness and joy is what pets radiate
Their gigantic melancholy eyes 
this makes animals so hard to resist
they are so cute that you just want to cry
but as good owner you have to insist
we all want pets no matter what it takes
whether it be birds cats or rattlesnakes...

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on a desert mountaintop 
coyotes howl at the moon
rattlesnakes slither under rocks
looking for warmth when the night cools

scorpions saunter aimlessly 
looking for prey to sink a sting
mountain lions search for their next meal
on the turf where they are king

every cactus, every living plant
has brambles that cut when touched
all of these dangers, and many more
live on God's mountaintop...

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Now here’s a tale spun with rattlesnakes
Stung into the eyes of motherless guilt
Now turn the head! Open the mouth!
For all to see, and so, too, that more shall fit!
The tainted vapors from our brew!
Breathe them, breathe them in!
And live like the hellhounds in our minds!

And then
In the morning you shall wake 
Returned, confused and dull
With nothing but a final sharp memory,
Like the wavering buoy in a black sea, 
Of the world bubbling and spilling from below....

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