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Short Startled Poems

Short Startled Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Startled by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Startled by length and keyword.


Premium Member Crow
big old crow
flies from rooftop
startled...

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Categories: startled, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Was I Dreaming
startled out of sleep
    train or trumpet...

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Categories: startled, allegory, confusion, judgement,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member on a back road
a startled kitten 
and raccoon scurrying 
across the road...

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Categories: startled, animal,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member stinky stink bugs
those naughty creatures 
so easily startled 
can poof anytime...

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Categories: startled, animal,
Form: Haiku
(4/7/4)reverberating
Horrible snore
Startled me to the hard floor….
Couch to explore...

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Categories: startled, angst, life
Form: Senryu



Premium Member captain sullys predicament
geese in the flight path
astounded startled pilot
remnants of sully...

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Categories: startled, history,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Shaving Lakeside
flat morning water
startled by harsh reflection
his youth disappeared...

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Categories: startled, age, image,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Haiku 15
a gray cat sits
beside the fish pond...
startled frog croaks

10/18/12...

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Categories: startled, nature,
Form: Haiku
Roast Goose
Startled geese hiding,
Huddling in the dense brush
Roasted goose dinner......

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Categories: startled, funny
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Startled From Dream
Awake at three.

Startled from dream state

Why is heart beating so fast?...

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Categories: startled, dream,
Form: Questionku
Premium Member indian lake
a pack of ducks swim 
startled by boats loud motors 
by-passing tossed bread...

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Categories: startled, bird,
Form: Haiku
Hide and Seek
Three cats on icy ground
play hide and seek and disappear
blackbirds are startled...

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Categories: startled, nature
Form: Haiku
Sermon of the Sun
As golden rays preached,
Startled mist tripped over rocks:
Cedars bowed in praise....

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Categories: startled, devotion, nature
Form: Haiku
Starling Hearts
I felt your heartbeat
A flight of startled starlings
It was then I knew
You wanted me too....

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Categories: startled, bird, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unpredictable
startled from her dream
dewdrop drops from the green leaf
feeds the fading grass

12 July 2021...

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Categories: startled, fate, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Haiku: Traditional 46
silently startled -
a tail worth remembering
season-less bonding

Brian Johnston
April 27, 2016...

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Categories: startled, cat, journey, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Muse Wakes
Muse wakes Screams at me Startled from sleep I must cater to her Madness.
...

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Categories: startled, appreciation, art, happy, muse, music, write, writing,
Form: Cinqku
Evening Wings
evening
sleepily awaiting the sound
of her wings
startled by a white possum
advancing across the woods...

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Categories: startled, animal, bird,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member No-Man's-Land
A child’s scarf lies abandoned in the street.
Through splayed fingers over face,
startled innocent eyes....

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Categories: startled, conflict, war,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member Haiku: Traditional 14
startled sparrow leaves 
bush without color or song
winter's foliage flown

Brian Johnston
December 6, 2015...

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Categories: startled, life,
Form: Haiku
Falling Free
Eternity shook,
   as the words fell free
    —startled, but unafraid

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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Categories: startled, freedom, words,
Form: Free verse
Falling Free
Eternity shook,
   as the words fell free
    —startled, but unafraid

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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Categories: startled, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sound I
SOUND I

genesis
              big bang!
not a sound



in the empty house
               night sounds
startled ghost...

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Categories: startled, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Tuskless
a startled sun -
scattered elephants on the plane;
their families grieve

Written: February 1999
Updated: January 29, 2016...

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Categories: startled, loss, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hello
The late call startled me awake.



She had never dressed me in black.











For Brian's contest  Won tenth...

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Categories: startled, imaginationme,
Form: I do not know?

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