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Best Snaking Poems

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Northern Slaves
In the silent breathing of night,
treading through 
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...

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Categories: snaking, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Charlottesville
I saw Nazis march yesterday
upon the streets of Charlottesville.
And, with swastikas on display,
crazed clansmen chanted blood will spill.

I saw Satan grinning with pride
at racial slurs...

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Categories: snaking, america, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Quatrain
Chains of Colonialism
Chains of Colonialism        

With guns they came
With whips and chains
Chains to capture the Dark Continent
Chains snaking across Africa
Africa...

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Categories: snaking, africa, discrimination, people, racism,
Form: Blitz
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids, ...

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Categories: snaking, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Fantastic Flora Masquerade
Creeping creepy creepers, the crawling trellis
jutting out of everywhere
snaking through country and metropolis
twisting turning in floral bliss
but more like snakes that hiss
But in quietude feign...

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Categories: snaking, abuse, environment, flower, garden,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Springtime On the Prairies
Nature unveils Her gorgeous Spring
colors with majestic splendor.
And Her garden is dappled with
purple pigments and puce pastels.

Tepid Chinooks melt mountain snows
that swell meandering rivers.
And form...

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Categories: snaking, beauty, color, flower, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Star-Crumb
"HUNGRY GAMES"

"I can’t find the words I want to say! “
Under the moonbeam and sparkling scattered stardust, 
I can feel the dew, which surpasses through...

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Categories: snaking, food, funny, night, night,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Harvest Time For Nature Only Contest
Blue sky, glorious golden sunshine 
Elements every farmer needs.
With crops rippling in the breeze
Combine harvesters whirl into action
See them steadfastly snaking along the fields
I can...

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Categories: snaking, autumn, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sshh! Chef's Busy In the Kitchen Making His Seafood Bisque.
Chef 's Winter dishes are simply delicious, not too much oil or cream.

Rich or plain,  taste tested to perfection, tiny portions sometimes steamed

He starts...

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Categories: snaking, food, funny, mystery, on
Form: Rhyme
Easter Ivy
It's used as an afterthought, fattening festive 
arrangements for Mother's Day, Easter, 
someone's birthday.  An underrated vine,
enhancing center-stage flowers whose star-power 
doesn't wear well. It's...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snaking, friendshipeaster, cousin,
Form: Narrative
Hymn To Pan
Hymn to Pan

Before Morocco was Roman, you see,
the music of Pan was African jazz.

At the Wednesday night prayer meeting
the percussion discussion of Mingus goes on,
getting'...

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Categories: snaking, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
The Village On the Water V
Showering white light illuminates 
  Bright-Moon Bay;
   In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
 Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
 ...

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Categories: snaking, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form: Free verse
Rain
I listened for the rain,
 it emerged slowly now and again
  from a crepuscular caliginus sky,
the tenebrous mist that trickled down lightly in the...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snaking, analogy, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swimming In the Water of My Own Making
Swimming in the water of my own making.
Waiting to be found out, body quaking.
Thinking I have a few extra minutes snaking.
My co-worker in conspiracy is...

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Categories: snaking, 10th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Blue Pushes Away The Grey
As spring leaps forward
And winters shroud
Is cast back
The putrid stench of earthy damp soil
And the litter of fallen leaves death and decay
Along with freezing damp...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snaking, birth, blessing, blue, spring,
Form: Free verse

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