Best Snake Poems
Below are the all-time best Snake poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of snake poems written by PoetrySoup members
Snake Oil Man In Milton CreekIt was about seven in the morn as the sun was starting to rise
Unbeknown to the folks of Milton Creek they were in for a...
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Categories:
snake, america, western,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
snake, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
No ReservationYou Are Not Invited
--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...
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Categories:
snake, abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
snake, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
snake, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
One Square MileIn one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one...
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Categories:
snake, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
No Anchor For RancourUpon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes...
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Categories:
snake, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Bleeding LoveIntroducing: Jan Allison & Poet Destroyer
Pierced by shards of shattered glass
Deeper and deeper you stab me
With lies and venomous words
Dissecting my heart...
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Categories:
snake, abuse, anger, betrayal, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Feline Alert*The feline Texan way*
A clean coat of paint - on my nails
Red shade of lips - on my smile
Solid oak charms - on my wrist
Country...
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Categories:
snake, adventure, beauty, body, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
Desire Love RomanceAll lovely words
when understood
All so misconstrued
silence envelopes our delusions
Desire, we lust the attention
at the forfeit of philosophy
Love, we crave at Kings expense
at times
Sacrificing those whom...
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Categories:
snake, art, heart, lost love,
Form:
Couplet
Manipulations Of FateI wait—
here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me free me
here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...
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Categories:
snake, death, fate, life, lost
Form:
Free verse
Wonderful WorldCool wind whispers on the breeze
Shimmering sunshine warms the autumn leaves
Dragonflies dance over a sparkling lake
Slithering silently is a sleepy snake
Beauty surrounds, just open your...
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Categories:
snake, beauty, nature, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Cockatoo
"Black Cockatoo"
I was white
as pure snow cotton
thread through the eye of God's needle
Black
he was,
not Egyptian, more ancient
he walked
in the Dreamtime
with...
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Categories:
snake, romance, sensual, silence,
Form:
Romanticism
Reflecting RipplesI stand alone a barking tree, where silent sorrows of ripples flee,
No one hears my calamity, wearing weeps of my raped reality…
Branches droop to ice-cold...
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Categories:
snake, abuse, conflict, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
How Do You Like Them ApplesComing from Texas, I knew he’d be loud
And soon I discovered that two is a crowd
Is that the privy? he asked of my house
When he...
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Categories:
snake, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme