Best Snaking Poems
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 burni......
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Categories:
snaking, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
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 slu......
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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 blessed by nature
Africa a precious jewel
Jew......
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Categories:
snaking, africa, discrimination, people, racism,
Form:
Blitz
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 fe......
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Categories:
snaking, abuse, environment, flower, garden,
Form:
Personification
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, a burnished sky, blue-white,
a ......
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Categories:
snaking, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
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 the night.
As I speak to you in tongue, this......
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Categories:
snaking, food, funny, night, night,
Form:
Alliteration
That Place...
"That Place"
In that place where you were abandoned,
that place, they never thought, you’d come back from,
in that place where it is believed nothing grows
in the lo......
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Categories:
snaking, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
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 ca......
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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 the day with freshly squeezed orang......
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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 wel......
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Categories:
snaking, friendshipeaster, cousin,
Form:
Narrative
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 by and by
as if they were drops of salted tears......
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Categories:
snaking, analogy, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
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' all jumpy and sw......
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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
To invite the same reticen......
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Categories:
snaking, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form:
Free verse
Boston Ivy...
POTD~
In the misery of a paler grey nightfall
she blinks like citrine glazed along walls,
Ivy of Boston flaunts her shimmer without guilt
as palette of amber claims her lustrous glides
slit......
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Categories:
snaking, passion, winter,
Form:
Free verse
A Golden Kiss...I Form - Imagism 9-18-24 6-20 lines
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A Golden Kiss
Summer bows out and leaves a golden kiss
Maize dozes in mellow aster afternoons
Orange glow......
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Categories:
snaking, autumn,
Form:
Imagism