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Splutters Poems - Poems about Splutters

Premium MemberThe Folk Of Habitat Bay

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There is a lovely town l know of called Habitat Bay
Where the residents are of the animal kind
Living together in harmony
A community supportive and aligned

Duck is the towns only doctor
A b...
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Categories: splutters, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberComing Down to Earth Grounded

...I see a clearing
It's big enough to land in
The grass is short
No rocks or bumps
It's all clear for landing

My heart beats in panic
Tears of sweat run down my face
Fear grips my body
In exp...
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Categories: splutters, flying,
Form: Free verse



STEEL AND SILK

... { “He plunged to the centre, and found it vast.” - Conrad Aiken } 


STEEL AND SILK

My love like steel and silk
      cuts through you 
            splutters your blood
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Categories: splutters, 12th grade, emotions, extended
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStream Ensemble

...The gurgling brook starts to babble near here,
It murmurs, humming a soft mantra song,
With squish, squelch, squirm, its fluid voice is clear,
As it splashes, splutt...
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Categories: splutters, river, song, sound,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberCrash Landing - B Type

..."The perils of a possible crash landing with a touch of humor to end it" 
~~ The Poet ~~
" Burlesque is poetry that treats a serious subject, humorously, or is simply a trivial story." ~~ Poetry So...
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Categories: splutters, flying,
Form: Burlesque



Kaffee Lang

...It clicks and it whirs and it chunters,
This wonderful little machine,
As it takes and measures and grinds
Those marvellous little brown beans.
It hisses and it gurgles and it splutters
Then fin...
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Categories: splutters, appreciation, happy, joy, technology,
Form: Rhyme

Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep

...Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep

Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural pallia...
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Categories: splutters, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

November Keep

...November is a thin needle under the shortest rib,
often it slips past your moat, your portcullis,
your castle walls unnoticed.
The fire in your kitchen splutters
and the wood is too wet t...
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Categories: splutters, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn the Farm

...I wake up at five each morning, I hear cock a doodle doo
my stomach’s gurgling but I won’t eat until I'm through;
as the horses need feeding on hay and crunchy  car...
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Categories: splutters, farm, work,
Form: Rhyme

A Shade of Human

...so this poem is based solely on the title and its interpretations

so the obvious one is racism
do the blind only see the sound

if you take it like colour
as in shades of pink
is shade just a...
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Categories: splutters, poetry,
Form: Free verse

If Only You Had Loved Me For a Day

...I look into the mirror and falter,
Staring back at me is a stranger
Wallowing in pity and self rebuke.
Another victim pierced by love's hook.
Being stripped bare and exposed
Like a waste paper t...
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Categories: splutters, hurt, sad, sad love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIsotropic

...pandemoniac incredulity sweeps the fat globe

illusion in disguise and sweet dreams of equality 

the grim reaper measures invincible destruction

finally attempts to be fair at least once in a...
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Categories: splutters, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Crookedness and Clowns

...They channelized the news
the quick zapped flash of fact undeniably
taking the opportunity by storm
by the contortions of varsity
they proclaimed so devoutly
the new acceptable norm
of an alrea...
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Categories: splutters, anxiety, society, today,
Form: Free verse

Meat

...She turns up the blue flames,
lowers the chops.
Dripping crackles, iron is fat licked -
grease on her fingers.

The meat finds its voice,
splutters of buttery smaze.
The pork is in bloom.
The...
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Categories: splutters, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Night Terrors

...It’s you I call to in my dreams,
To pull me out from the fear I’ve seen.
The ones that hold me in captured fright,
When slow motion kicks in,
And my screams are no more than wheezing murmurs,
Wh...
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Categories: splutters, dream, night,
Form: Free verse

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