Best Asp Poems
ASP OF GRIEF
She buries her head upon this asp of grief —
soft with reptilian fangs, hard with poison.
Her covetous husband lies upon the Nile’s reef.
She holds her abdomen in her arms - his son.
with lunar belly...
the shape of her husband’s seed
...a fateful eclipse
The pit with its bone-chilling cold, hisses with hatchlings,
dreaming of spoiled seeds and seas with a vortex,
coiling around ships. A queen’s lips burn red, yearning for her king.
An abandoned wreck will not lay eyes upon his baby’s sex.
insanity’s kiss...
eyes burn with crimson lipstick
...unrepentant flames
She plays with sticks and desire, enticing asps of despair —
gorges with vampiric teeth. She embraces their mock
and likewise teases, beckons and pleads for death so fair.
Like a breeze about her ankles snakes snip her royal purple frock.
entanglement frays...
dyed purple threads unravel
...rigor mortis strikes
His candle ensign in the dark, a resurrected hero of vanity.
The light flickers with feet in the sand, footprints at lover’s leap.
His profile in death’s shadow, his purple passion of insanity —
laughter litters this carnivorous cave where ashes of dust heap.
alluring ashes...
Salome’s serpentine dance
...Cleopatra’s veils
The sound of a knife being sharpened, his sword with venom drawn,
leaps upon his self-righteous chest, a single blade’s deep penetration.
No handsomer lover, thighs of steel, tanned and craven brawn.
He lost his rapturous beauty bright and fleeting, weeds of veneration.
bilious-amber
mixes with his crimson blade
— a suicide pact
4/28/2018
Categories:
asp, beauty, death, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
asp, humorous, word play, words,
Form:
Light Verse
Burlap marinated in back water ponds,
that's what the spirit of truth often dons
always forever and mahogany strong...
pillar of marble in cyclones of neglect
hold tight to its wings,glide above feiry pits.
Untruth, the drunk weaving down neon road
a pair of vertical eyes, a million pot holes..
always the deciever, never yearns to give back
so much fleeter than what you'd expect,
fools fancy chasing the tail of the Asp.
Truth, the cay of salvation circled by sharks
lone firefly ripping the mask from the dark
gilded loom of the humbled and homespun heart
Untruth, supreme seductress of venomous ID
whirlpool to water colored hearts and smiles
living to brand death back into pure eyes.
Categories:
asp, life, truth,
Form:
Free verse
ancient deceiver
slithering symbol of kings
perhaps Cleo's bane
Categories:
asp, adventure, animals, history, places
Form:
Haiku
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.
Categories:
asp, analogy, animal, beauty, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
We
gather
in towns
we congregate
in famous squares.
We are the new menace
and we have chosen now
to gather in this crumbling place.
For this is the year of the rabbit, a glorious season,
a marvelous kingdom to tear asunder, to rip from time.
By my eyes I swear that we will march with fire from the left,
we will carry savage arms and drive the five percent feudalists fom our lands.
And now is the time, now we have our chance. We're just waiting for the herald,
just waiting for the kickoff, just waiting for you, the bullet, the nightcap and the noose.
by hook or by crook, by buckshot or book we'll seize from them the freedom that they took.
Categories:
asp, allegory
Form:
Fibonacci
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
Categories:
asp, art,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
asp, death,
Form:
Tanka
ASP--
egyptian cobra
the modern Anglicisation
venomous Nile snake
not to be confused
with ASP application apps
internet access
4/28/18
Asp - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anthony Slausen |
Categories:
asp, animal, destiny, engagement, metaphor,
Form:
Haiku
Pyramids hued in sand like granite,Egyptian
mummies all wrapped from ages of habits!
In those days were not shotrages in
band-aids,History retells tales of kings
being waited on by servants and hand maids!
Royalty amid tribes of the desert ruled by
Cloepatra's reign,Her fleet sailed and was
manned by slaves at oars of pain!Mark
Antony was stayed,by Cleo's asp,In those
days,it's people were ruthless and crasp!
Poisioned thru love's heartache and
disappointment at hand,They did die by
their very own hands,in this area of their
own calling,This Egyptian Desert's,royal birth
land!The Noble did want to take Royalty as
his wife,There was no hope,thus they took
their very own life! 11-12-2005'.
Michael Jeffrey Gale
Copyright ©2005 Michael Jeffrey Gale
Categories:
asp, lost love, love, sea,
Form:
ONCE AN
A small slithering
Snake sneaking
Poison bites on prey
AWAYS AN ASP
May 5, 2018
Asp Contest by Anthony Slausen
N/A
Categories:
asp, evil,
Form:
Monoku
spying a snake
sliding over sand . . .
picnic at sunset
May 6, 2018
Categories:
asp, animal,
Form:
Haiku
Asp
most ancient viper
death kiss in slow movement on
Cleopatra’s hand
5/6/18
Bite Size Poem 2'
Categories:
asp, animal,
Form:
Haiku
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
Categories:
asp, dark, nature,
Form:
Free verse
ABILITLY ABSTRACTLY ABSORBED, ABRIDGED , ABOUNDED AND ACCEPTED
SKYWAY SCRIBES SECRETLY SIEZED SIZED, SEMINATED, SILENTLY SUBTERFUGED
PRODDED PAGANIZATION, PALMEISTED, PROFFERED, PARANORMAL PROTECTION
Categories:
asp, analogy,
Form:
Free verse