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Best Slug Poems

Below are the all-time best Slug poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slug poems written by PoetrySoup members


To a Slug
Your pace of life is just sublime
When blessed with seasons, wet and warm
With foliage and fungi, you mark your time
A gastropod; a handsome form
As your...

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Categories: slug, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lotsa Limericks - It Couldn'T Be Verse
1. Big Brother
Big Brother's protecting his mice
with a secret eavesdropping device.
          If you hang up the...

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Categories: slug, america, society,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Morning Glory
Her face may show a rosy blush
Peering through a favorite bush.
Perhaps you'll greet with great delight
This newcomer dressed in purest white 
Miss Morning Glory, sweet...

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Categories: slug, nature
Form: Personification
At 50
I am five,
I want all the pears and pies,
Pops, sweets and fries;
I really think this life.

I am ten,
I have learnt how to hold my pen,
Learnt...

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Categories: slug, age,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Difference Between You and Me
You hug and slug me
You hot and cold me
You love and loathe me
You calm and craze me
You feed and starve me
You kiss and hiss me
You...

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Categories: slug, deep,
Form: Monorhyme



Ode To a Snail
Slug or Snail
Slow you trail
The slimy path you leave
upon bark or rail
or along my pail
Glue from your tail? 
Ah bind my mail? 
Be my pet...

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Categories: slug, animal, fun,
Form: Ode
Premium Member I'M In a Jam
I’m stuck in traffic
Crawling like a slimy slug
Why call it rush hour?

4th April 2015...

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Categories: slug, car, humorous,
Form: Questionku
Premium Member Evolutionary Sequel - Full Circle
Act 1: Earth

Water
Droplets fall to earth
Meniscus lens on the world -
Wellspring of life born

Air
Gaseous brew forms
Invisible elixir - 
A breath of fresh air

Fire
Destructive, cleansing
But giver...

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Categories: slug, animal, earth, environment, fire,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Dream Series: My Vegetable Garden
Last night I dreamed I was weeding my vegetable garden in the Drive-in theater, while people wandered back and forth from snack bar to their...

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Categories: slug, animal, dog, dream, food,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Beautiful As Daisies
Contn'd from Pg 1

So she called out to the stranger and asked for a ride
Snow had fallen heavily and already piled three feet high
When she...

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Categories: slug, dedication, life, loss, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Trail of Destruction
A snail has thousands of teeth
No wonder it is such a thief
It gobbles my plants
You should hear my rants
Slug pellets will give some relief!

I discovered...

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Categories: slug, garden, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Lunar Ticking
American cosmonaut
	moonwalking
Humanity is tethered to the line,
sweating vacuum fear facing the void
Planet of the apes ...
	backwards talking
Silent film projector reel
spinning in reverse ... time capsule...

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Categories: slug, allusion, dark, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse
Mr Cokeman
You see I've been misunderstood majority of my life
Its as though if living were war 
then im the knife
Its not my fault society embraces suicide
Label...

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© John Floyd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slug, black african american, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lotus For Sloping Knees
LOTUS FOR SLOPING KNEES
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the contentment of disheveled twigs
sitting on shoulders of humming trees,
the sunlight wafting shades on meshed nets---
it is before early morning, pale always...

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Categories: slug, peace, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Visitors
Visitors I saw in my garden today were:

9 starlings noisily squabbling
1 duck casually waddling.

1 robin - a handsome little chap
1 bumble bee, that landed on...

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Categories: slug, animal, bird, cat, garden,
Form: List

Book: Reflection on the Important Things