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Best Snakelike Poems

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Premium Member When Scorpio Goes Dark
Antares' red glow bears firmly down
upon plush, chartreuse carpet
lying prone against the obsidian expanse,
blanketing sections of a remote 
blue sphere, purling,

spinning helplessly 
through distant time...

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Categories: snakelike, space, stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Nothingness
“Nothingness” 

Words 
lines drawn 
unending

dusk 
to
dawn

characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind 

where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows 

and snakelike
moves 
outside the lines

electric 
we become strange
symphonies sublime;

engraved in...

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Categories: snakelike, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stillness
She glides out of the room on tiptoe,
As graceful as a sinuous ballet,
Sliding past sad memories that flow,
Staring, scowling eyes upon her still prey.

As graceful...

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Categories: snakelike, abuse, analogy, anger, betrayal,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Power of the She Vixen That Oft Souls Destroys
Power Of The She Vixen That Oft Souls Destroys

Silk sheets graced her sweet, welcoming night bed
promised relief from pain, sorrow and dread.
With such treasure offered...

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Categories: snakelike, betrayal, conflict, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I That Troddeth Through Flames of Hades To Burn
I That Troddeth Through Flames Of Hades To Burn

I that troddeth through flames of Hades to burn
Sheddeth my blacken, snakelike and scaly skin
As glowing embers...

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Categories: snakelike, art, dark, evil, humanity,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Honeymoon On the Flying Scotsman
With a snakelike hiss, the train doors close
the engine rocks and rumbles on clicking
over welded metal couplings: iced, glazed, froze,
the steam heat in clouds arose,...

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Categories: snakelike, travel, vacation,
Form: Terza Rima
Visit To Antietam
Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes...

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Categories: snakelike, america, conflict, history, together,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Praise Dancers
The Praise Dancers…
In stilled silent
space 
between garnished tables,
the word exploded:  
gyrating motion 
spilled out
here and there;
yet
bare clapping hands
and naked feet
made 
no sound.

Staccato movements 
shot...

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Categories: snakelike, analogy, celebration, dance, faith,
Form: Free verse
Storm Warning
The gathering storm rattled snakelike over distant hills,
Heads of dust and debris thrown as charcoal relief
To the vast expanse of the sky;
In the drought of...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snakelike, death, history, life, loss,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member For She, This Victory Was Gained- Sonnet Number 2
For She, This Victory Was Gained-  Sonnet number 2


You that loved her for her long, yellow hair,  
I for her grace, charm and...

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Categories: snakelike, age, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Sonnet
Animal Instinct
Every time
  my brain pauses
I can feel
             (taste)
your bloody kiss,
  ...

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Categories: snakelike, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Letters: Reduction-Finale For Circling Moments
Gazing,
Greek letters display of curious origin.
Impregnation skin softly writhing aware letters

Sea

Alpha, Omicron, Tau, Psi, Mu, Rho, pass through all the rest and each other figure...

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Categories: snakelike, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
Singer Sir Mick Jagger
Walks with a swagger
Wriggling snakelike hips
Pouts with big rubbery lips


Texan model Jerry Hall
Is very skinny and tall
Their Bali wedding wasn’t valid
Mick no...

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Categories: snakelike, celebrity, humorous, music,
Form: Clerihew
Tittering Totter
tittering totter is not a high heeled smoke alarm nor a ship

Valve number eighteen is open said the rasping snakelike male. Slithering. Pipe like gatherings...

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Categories: snakelike, allusion, aubade, baptism, bible,
Form: I do not know?
Here
I see you're still here,
drowning in the ginger beer.
Peeking, pilfiering, scraping the veneer.
Snakelike, with a sneer.
Don't misle that horny steer-
please watch your language, dear.

Uch, why?...

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Categories: snakelike, friend,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs