Best Snap Off Poems

Breathing Life

When all about you crumbles
and life becomes a chore,
when despair and desperation
leave you empty to the core.
When there is no point in living
and you wish that you were dead
there is no one that can wake you
from depression’s hopeless bed.

When every straw you grasp at
seems...

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This poem was inspired by “MOUNTAIN Senryuor Haiku series 022021”
 Written by: Anil Deo - who received poem of the day 14th November 2021
Instapoetry
If leaves on trees revealed poetry
What a harvest there would surely be
Ripe fruit of the poets forestry 
In truly tasteful variety…….
Pick a...

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in summer
 a cat appeared
 in my backyard
 every day
 bathed in the sunshine
 rolled on its back
 then sneaked under the fence
   on its merry way...

 now a forbidding wind moans
 leaves snap off of trees
 late afternoons
 the hawk is out
...

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...the way flight begins in the heart
                               Martin Steingesser


 Stopping by the side of the...

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Tree Mystery - Haiku

stolen from the oak
leaves snap off, accosted, cold 
another blast, wind...

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So sick, ashamed, tuke-deh-blaim guilty 
And tired of your sarcastic comments that tease me on purpose
Really not an accidental thing in the first place
Crazy talk I do on a daily basis
Aggravated beyond reason and logic and behind-closed-pupils emotions 
So afraid to change my mind about...

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In the dark , pit may look like a bed
In anger, heart beats faster than drum
In hunger, eye loses sight
Circumstances, unforseen
Harms and damage , immeasurable.
Lives could snap off in a seconds
Yet, I am here, you are there

Going out , coming in
Like the passengers in a...

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POQ
P O Q AND D C B, means 2 U I can assure,
Is piss off quick and don’t come back,
No don’t come back, no more
So you hit it over the arrrs with the bridle,
Don’t wanna catch this hoss, paw poor,
Let it suck aigs with lucky...

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I am a furious force
you dare not reckon with when I am at my peak!
Assassin of startled vegetation,
I attack with no mercy or compassion.
Limbs of trees – laden with snowfall that I bring - 
snap off as easily as heads of dolls
in the hands of...

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Rushing through the forest,
Scratching vines tearing at our all overs,
Tangled up in glorious torment, together
Tiny clearing for a spell,

It's all very well, but what about
The journey back? Suddenly lost and
Fearful, you stumble ahead whilst
I am caught breathless in the brambles,

You trip, foot catches hold of
A...

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Does life exist between calamities 
or does it exist between parameters
lucky or bot, sight or hearing
visible or non-existent, circumstances or inferiority
a complex we don't understand nor leaves us standing
How much longer will these afflictions persist
how much longer will I suffer the pleasantries of my subtle...

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After many years I paid a rare visit to the woods from my long ago childhood days,
Things have changed since boyhood, the bees are silent, the landscape has changed,
Gone, honey-laden scented flowers of the old sycamore now just crinkled old leaves,
In their place hang dainty...

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The gingerbread man sleeps in the pan 
Until the spatula comes, and the hand - 
To snap off his crackling, new-born limbs 
No end to human appetites - and whims ... 

He's stuck there, broken, on the baking pan - 
Little doughy, cooked - little...

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Crunch
by Michael R. Burch

A cockroach could live nine months on the dried mucous you scrounge from your nose
then fling like seedplants to the slowly greening floor ...

You claim to be the advanced life form, but, mon frere, 
sometimes as you snatch encrusted kinks of hair...

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The wind is as cold as it has ever gotten
My nose would be crying if it could breathe.
I am afraid if I bump it against a tree limb 
it will snap off. It is frozen and brittle now.
Kansas winter, not as horrible as Michigan
But right...

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