Adder Poems - Poems about Adder

Not Anne but Gabrielle

...Not Anne, But Gabrielle
by Gabrielle Munslow

If you want me to take you to another time,
take my hand.
Don’t furrow your brow.

Slick with storylines,
my tongue twists
like an adder.

Poe...

Poison

...

She's like a puff adder
Pure poison spews from her mouth
Please bite your tongue!
...

Illusions

...

The bloody soul we learn to hate
Is not our own nor pain within us

The visions of fantasy which we partake
Cause violence; man’s weakness, unjust

Illusions like the strike of a...

Snake in the Grass

...If a viper's a snake 

And an asp's an adder

If either one bites you 

Then what does it matter...

The Messenger

...
"The Messenger"

Love is rich with 
venom and honey. 

there was a female ...

snake, 
it watched 
with green-eyed 
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest

the dove, 
wa...

Woozy Winter

...white corals around
landscapes sparkle in pure white ---
adder snakes creep on creepers 

white furs and sponges 
ornament the environs ---
white fox innocently blinks 

10 January 2023...

Hidden In Plain Sight

...HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

Some said it was coming, even imminent
But it’s actually here now, and for real
A New World Order no longer a theory
Such that of TV news we should be leery
What we think...

Comparing Luther and Mandela

...Shall I forget my asking a brother:
“Who of The Two has A Much Taller Order?”
And Dairy Hand mishandled An Udder,
For round spinning to watch Close Adder…

Martin Luther and Nelson Mandela,
If ...

The Murder Weapon

...It was a mystery
The death of her twin sister
Helen became jittery
On the manner death had kissed her.

These few words sister could only say
“It was the speckled band”
Before her last...

Psalm 91

...He who dwells in the shelter of the Most
High,
who abides in the shadow of the All
Mighty,
will say to the Lord," My refuge and my
and my fortress;
my God in whom I trust."
For he will deliver...

Tom Turkiye

...Tom had to empty his bladder 
The path was blocked by an adder
"Just Russians" it hissed
But Tom never missed
And now that adder is madder...

Zoo-Nado

...[Sometimes when I’m struggling to write
I scrawl gibberish in the hope that inspiration
will lie within. Sometimes, just sometimes…
I like the result. This is one such]


There’s an ostrich in ...

Madder Than An Adder

...My Fellow Soupers, 
   
    I rarely get mad anymore, but today I am madder than an adder. Not long ago, an unemployed security guard in Florida accepted an $11/hour job at a company named CIS.  Th...

Spell Spiellage

...
There’s a wizard in the Ivory House,
speaking grandiose
The klu 
is in the bewitching words 
he spew

This be the klux of the matter — 
See the toxic spiellage
vapor wasted 
‘pon th...

Good-N-Plenty

...There's plenty of goodness out there
but it's been fanged by the puff adder DJS
now goodness is slowly dying on media vines 
behind boarded up windows and riot fire
with pistols and rosaries at t...

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