Startled Poems - Poems about Startled

startled fox turns with his fluffy tail down His fur he wears like an amber kingly gown Against the forest wall, he gives so much color Hiding in the thicket is his older brother His teeth have barely come in, he is a baby Will he run off like a frightened deer? Possibly He skitters away; now his beautiful tail is...

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A Flock of Startled Birds He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock, He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock. His leather shoes burnished to a mirror-like shine, Tie ironed flat – a perfect straight line. Trouser legs spotless, each one like a razor Creases removed from a freshly-pressed blazer. Beside him his beret, shaped,...

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Her garden faeries were more delicate than she remembered She delighted in their frolicking playfulness and sense of fun One flew pretty close to her face, almost touching her nose She smiled, loving the attention they were giving to her this May A man’s voice frightened them. They were gone before she blinked. Beautiful garden, he said. His voice was...

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Pavlov got it right I feel, conditional behaviour we never seem to lose This one revisits sometimes for me and dog, but over time it seems to weaken Last year we walked away from our previous life, only a few scars for both mostly external We are lucky, many have brought worse things home It was a different time...

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Lanterns, ambered the room, Sunset smiles,late afternoon, Cat, waits for the moon. ...

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Startled In the dark I fight for air puzzled at my sight I gaze with fear numbed with my mind slumped to their kind quiver in my being shiver what I have been wrestled from him strangled I slim am petrified I wait stupefied on me he weight he thrust his hand dip in my bag I slip I drag At me he pounce and bands In silence it sounds for non can hear at me pangs In pain...

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An acquaintance and former neighbor I haven't seen for eons sneaks up and excitedly grips my shoulders from behind. The sudden jolt of electricity that was his hands! Oh, he got my attention alright! He scared the dickens out of me I'm not gonna lie! Not that I held it against him. He just wanted to say hello...and Happy New...

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Black silence wakes me up spooky feeling my heart beats eighty miles an hour who and where I am does not register hyper hearing kicking in fast heart fear noise sudden startles me outside door creaks too paralyzed to run I wait for it...

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Awake at three. Startled from dream state Why is heart beating so fast?...

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Let me be open to be startled to let the unexpected in, to be surprised, astonished, shocked, wide open to action happening in peripheral view. Let me be open to strangeness by looking for difference and oddity with laser cutter eyes slicing away the clutter of mundane sameness. Let me be startled by strangeness, glad to be jostled and jangled, disturbed and wrangled to action...

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Were Startled and Cringed We had become startled and then cringed, Loser Trump lashed out and was unhinged; We would wonder, About his thunder; His stupid hair looked ugly like it is singed. Jim Horn...

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"J'adore le genre de personne d'avoir une maison pleine de canines! Vouloir glissent sur les nuages en Berlin! Pour les nuages me guidera - vers un nouveau chemin! Les Montagnes et les vol qui me guide... Les nuages et le vol qui me guide..."...

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Tonight winter startled It came unexpectedly Few people walked Below the gleam moon Shivering beneath their fur coat I stood trying to figure A black contorted portrait Drawed from the yellow dim lamp On a cold brown dune Which I stared As they passed Waving a friendly gesture Greeting me with unknown tongue Still I am naive Longed for each nostalgic sweet sound of My homestead,...

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The hailstones pounded the window as violently,as if they had minds bent on killing;soldiers in rows and ranks rushing onwards; as each fell another and another took its place. Cold and mathematical they had a simple precise force and geometry. Into this warlike scene,floated two white butterflies Crossing and recrossing the spaces between the hail they followed a random path;now together.now apart Their...

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Through the fog, I see shadows. Silhouettes of people or spirits. Like the cat that scampers when startled. Without haste I hide behind the sofa....

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