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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
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 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

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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
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 the night.
As I speak to you in tongue, this......

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Categories: snaking, food, funny, night, night,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member That Place
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"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
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 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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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Boston Ivy
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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
Premium Member 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

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