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Startles Poems - Poems about Startles

Premium Member Interview On Mirrored Deja Vu
... ME: Deja vu- It startles me at times. Like a mirror, coming before me; A conversation An interaction Almost anything- Exact in every detail ......

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Categories: startles, lost, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
A Spectral Owl
...Cloaked in a fitting grey suit and bow tie, She floats like paper kites across meadows. From a hollow in a tree, her eyes pry~ Her loud hoot startles nearby sleeping crows. The spectral owl, wi......

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Categories: startles, adventure, dark, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ontology of the Unwitnessed
...Her laughter startles the morning air - a flock of starlings scattering from power lines into the cathedral of her collarbones. She moves through rooms unaware of how doorframes arc......

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Categories: startles, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Coming Kiss
...A-rush In a feather ruffling frenzy cooling the flamboyant sunrise muffling the warblers with waffling winds chilling the audience in an ice-like stare your shivery essence ricochets throug......

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Categories: startles, december,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dogs Have Fun Outside
...Beau my young dog gazes toward the west He stands, barks, and runs up the driveway He comes back from the east Meaning he has circled the house He stares at me plunks down and puts his head on......

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Categories: startles, dog,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member october noon sounds
...weird bird tweet cheep cheep cheep traffic in the distance barely perceptible breeze rooster crow dogs chase squirrel his get away is lickety split up a hickory tree wind chimes a merry m......

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Categories: startles, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Morning Miracle
...Sun surprises moon Startles her with light and flame Frightens her away Then spreads wide his arms And creates a new morning Miracle complete ......

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Categories: startles, moon, morning, sun,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Laughter
...Laughter bubbles up from deep within it foams, gurgles, exudes joy, and spreads until it bursts forth and erupts into a jubilant noise that startles me as it takes on a life of it’s own and spr......

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Categories: startles, cheer up, emotions, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In A Whisper
... In a whisper, love poured out its light, its truth, its purpose… a still, small voice who told me He is worthy of the worship, the truth, the praise that promises to stir my faith w......

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Categories: startles, appreciation, faith, forgiveness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Gentle Rain
... While the dawn collects its rhythm, Quietly protecting the whispers of a new day, Tangerine sunsets composing chrysanthemum hymns, Risk their gentling tones in rarest glimpses, T......

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Categories: startles, appreciation, beautiful, inspiration, rain,
Form: Free verse
Homer Translations
...Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage h......

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Categories: startles, beauty, god, home, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Homer translations
...Homer translations Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michae......

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Categories: startles, death, father son, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges
...Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges, Where my once sure steps now breach bonds and ridges. Your scars are but an alluring landscape, Their call, an echo urging me t......

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Categories: startles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poems going nowhere that don't get finished
...This is a broken emptiness So surrounded in fixedness you can't get at it All I've ever wanted, I'm that But in disorder Unoriginal amongst poets My drama is bound, I won't let it out All doors......

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Categories: startles, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Feels Real
... True love, the kind that lasts, Remembers to give, with an open heart, Remembers to listen, to hear what’s being spoken, Remembers to laugh, to smile, to kiss, Remembers to embrace the music,......

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Categories: startles, appreciation, true love,
Form: Free verse

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