Asp Poems | Examples

The Jellybean Asp

A couple years after earning a G.E.D.
He came home from a tour of duty.
Sporting a tattoo and a pair of war eyes.
(2 black jellybeans where there once were stars).

One day the shine in those stars was displaced.
When his closest grunt friend got blown away via an I.E.D. 
Rigged by a teenage Asp, slithering in a blistered land.
Dreaming only in the colors of death.

The Happy Asp

Truth is a mouthful of blood -spit upon a Persian rug
a kick to the balls in the middle of the sweetest dream
karma doesn't stop chewing until the souls licked clean
and what of our far off god -that mysterious golden being,
stirring hell into our soil since we were mustard seeds. 

Everyone thinks of offing themselves from time to time
usually when we're running low on honey and wine 
when mad horses trample over our parched field lives.
Something brings most back from the brink
maybe it's the bouncing star baby sleeping in the crib
or the dirty plunger when it finally frees up the sink.

You may as well dance because it's more painful to crawl
kiss a stranger on the mouth, have yourself a ball
but don't bounce the ball off the devil's burning grass
or he just may kick down your little white picket fence 
and light up your happy little a$$.

Asp

Asp

most ancient viper
death kiss in slow movement on
Cleopatra’s hand

5/6/18

Bite Size Poem 2'

Wise, Asp

What is this?

Spit at me, will you??
Hiss and spit and rattle your tail?!?

Be my guest, oh Great Coiled One ...
You are king, after all, and I but a fool!
But THIS jester has dealt with your kind before ...

Oh, yes, and far, FAR worse!
There is another creature that shames you in its ferocity ...
Her temperamental and capricious airs
Hold much more menace and fury!

Oh, she can rival the worst of your ire ...
Bare her fangs, hiss and snarl, rattle her tail, and strike ...
She is easily the most formidable opponent man has ever known,
Yet her most insidious and treacherous trait
Is the exquisitely captivating form that wraps her ...

Heaven help us, we are naught but powerless before it!
Oh, it is a deadly and guileful costume, indeed -
A slinky guise that takes your breath at one moment ...
And the next, brings you weeping to your wobbly knees!

So, do your worst, Asp ...
Bring your wicked wrath to bear,
For I have met my match,

And she laughs at your feeble folly
Even now ... this ...

Woman.

Asp

spying a snake

sliding over sand . . .

picnic at sunset


May 6, 2018

Asp

It's too late in the day to tell you of asps;
it's time for an afternoon nap. 
The taxes are all filed, and on their way
by certified post from the c.p.a.
The afternoon is lazy;
the sun is just beginning to feel its dottage
as it leans on the wind for a crutch
weary as it hobbles through sky,

much the same way some say Ra
wandered through Egyptian dunes,
senile and babbling words of power
his spittle potent with secret sounds
and dropping on the sand.

How careful, clever Isis crept,
swadled in her lotus linen,
memorizing all his magic, 
and taking up the dampened sand
rolled them into asps.

May 4th, '18

Asp

ABILITLY ABSTRACTLY ABSORBED, ABRIDGED , ABOUNDED AND ACCEPTED      
SKYWAY SCRIBES SECRETLY SIEZED  SIZED, SEMINATED,  SILENTLY SUBTERFUGED 
PRODDED PAGANIZATION, PALMEISTED, PROFFERED, PARANORMAL PROTECTION

Asp

A-s-p are three high-functioning letters
And while I imagine that some might do better
  Here are some ways to bring them together

At the start of a word we have aspirin and asparagus
Not to mention aspartame, aspects, and aspersions
Then there's aspire, aspirations, and asperity
  And maybe even an aspirator, between you and me

Of course, if you have asp in the middle
You get asp in the end
As you'll find in clasp grasp, hasp and rasp
And it works the other way too--
  Which I'm sure you can grasp

That brings to an end this discussion of asp
For more, read the Bible or Shakespeare
  Or find a teacher to ask

Asp

Charmion's hand trembles
The snake is enticed to kill
Ptolemaic queen;
Asp slithers down her body
And in deep embrace they sleep.




Form: TANKA
Asp - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anthony Slausen
03rd May, 2018

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Once An Asp

ONCE AN

A small slithering 
Snake sneaking 
Poison bites on prey

AWAYS AN ASP


May 5, 2018


Asp Contest by Anthony Slausen
N/A

The Asp

Beware the perils of the golden asp
whose world is of dust and death 
he moves as smoothly as satin
and is as deadly as anthrax.

How he writhes upon his belly
intent on catching his victim 
ever searching, ever hunting 
preditory, with pure blood lust. 

In the apex of a dark night
that is blacker than India ink
the asp spies his helpless prey 
with distant, unblinking eyes. 

How he hisses, a heathen sound
then flares his upturned nostrils  
how he flits his forked tongue about. 

Sharp fangs boldly appear 
from his scaly, snake mouth
then suddenly, the asp leaps
striking with prodigious precision
paralyzing his prey. 

How quickly he hastens its demise
ushering his catch through death’s 
distant door.
Oh, beware the perils of 
the golden asp!




Written on 5/2/2018

You'Re An Asp

Do not be an asp!
I say to my husband.
Putting him immediately into argument-ive mode.

Asp, I said Asp I shriek with glee 
As he heads toward me 
With a super angry face, to dismount and unload.

He stops at the couch.
Asp like a venomous snake? He asks me.
Yes, like a wonderful, Cleopatra-like, wonderful cobra, see?

And just how is that better? He asks me, in a dangerous way.
“Asps are handsome, determined, eager-to-please,” I happily say.

We both know I’m making this up on the fly.
We almost laugh when we catch each other’s eye.

He smiles. You’re an asp, he says. 
Yes, I am, but not as much as Inez.


Submitted on 4-30-2018
Contest: ASP by Anthony Slausen

Asp

Can’t help this fatal attraction 
Give me all your attention 
A pinch of affection 
Prick me with your love injection

Your hands around me move like a tide
Your lips taste like fine red wine
I want to taste every drop
until no, I can’t stop

Give it to me
ASP
It gives me thrills
It rocks
Thrill me
ASP

There are no rules, no direction
All I want is your affection
Prick me, pierce me
With your love injection

It tastes so great
I just can’t wait
Taste me
ASP

Dip your love
In my heart
Love me
ASP


29-04-2018
Asp - Poetry Contest

Asp Clasped

I gasped, as asp clasped fast
around my head like a plaster cast cap.
It was coiled round and round
like a ringlet of hair wrapped
around a curler, with head reared up 
poised like spitting cobra.
What spell can I cast to uncoil, unclasp the asp?
For I'm too scared to grasp the asp
and cast the serpent skyward.
Perhaps wearing the Uraeus asp cap
means I'm a Pharaoh!

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