Startle Poems - Poems about Startle

...Sleep is a deception, a ghost wearing the garment of rest, a bloody truth hidden beneath our eyelids, an escape from the labyrinth of the mind, where light dances in the darkness, a forbidden beaco......

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... Wings lift in praise, silently amaze Startle the light, gliding on the night Breathless streams of softest dreams Glow like the moon with hope’s tune Wind so quiet the song cannot......

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...Waves crash as sorrow fills my blood. Temptations run deep, tears flow down silently, and misunderstood. Change it all; no, I accept my fall. Hearts break when you push it all away. Delusions gat......

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...A venetian red yearling’s head Pops up From behind a fallen log Licks rouge from its lips And the syrup sipped from dark maple bark Ears tweaking To the snow-crunch creak Of my dog and me appr......

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...It is snowing in the forest and all is pure white and perfection. Except for tiny animal prints and my own. Some people call winter hell but I must call it heaven. I can hear the trees crackling......

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...“The Clock on the Wall” That clock! The clock with cruelty, unmovable. Telling time to be forever in motion. The ticking, a deafening sound. Marked by grime. Yellowed by generations, grown d......

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...You are still a vague image of mine, you are no longer there. The one you knew so close, is not one you knew in near, You adored the one, your reverie, your floral blossom knitted a welcome song ......

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... Zooming around the room in wheel chair-moves our child greets us by his beeping toy’s cheer allowing pets to bark and meow freely. Gesturing to hush ......

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... angels still the night’s unrest, gentling away the shadows who startle, kissing darkness with hesitant prayers, startling melancholic whispers from messengers, fetching souls the ......

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...Screech of owl with shrieking caterwauling doesn’t startle me at all until wings shroud the sky. My blessed-courage takes cover real fast as the rodent alongside’s encroached on by talons. ......

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...Some never awaken. In the endless stream of my consciousness, amidst shadows that open like flowers In the diffuse light of our drowsy existence, I also hibernate, a traveler wandering through the......

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...When fire raged and burned it's roof, sun rays fell to forest floor, And lit upon scraggly flowers once doomed to bloom no more. Then unharnessed, like wild horses, the shrubs began to fight. Each......

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...Huge fluffy clouds began to form over Sanibel Island as the salted gulf splashed against the rocks around the lighthouse coastal waters rose up as a calming coolness carried this gentle warm ......

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...Beneath the starry vault of memory, your voice lays down Like a blanket of marble weathered by long-forgotten deities. I've allowed my hopes to be gently polished By the eternal warmth of your wor......

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...A deeper silence diffuses rapidly around Nature waiting for its awakening, a shine less, discontent and wandering star gleams with a scarcely light so murky and feeble; then dissipates itself in ......

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