Best Snapdragon Poems

I found pleasure in every direction, 
As I wandered mystified through the fields.
A snapdragon captured my attention; 
Possessed with the sensation that it yields.
Moving slowly over the grass, I feel
Entranced; the flower holds me in a daze.
Once the snapdragon’s near, I stop and kneel; 
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sometimes a snapdragon
breaks the neck of necessity,
crushes the head of instinct.

the cheese in the trap,
the bait on the hook.

the proof in the poison,
love like antifreeze.

hearts snapped in bear traps,
hope singed by blue light.

cupid is an angry wasp
seeking those with allergies.

beware of vibrations in loud voices,
hollow...

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I know I am her favorite flower;
I shoot up in a spike of yellow bloom
to snatch her attention away
from all other flowers 
at home in this small garden patch.
...but the Gladiolus is coming
with spikes much bolder than mine
and I shall wither away in the shadow...

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Papery feathers strain to take wing.
Frills ruffle, mythic masks gnash at the air
beautifully belligerent.

Plucked, they dally daily
between the surfaces of legend,
and the finery of a silk-stockinged
sentience.

Diaphanous stems are necks-laced
below an open-mouth in full quaff
pastel beaks
revealing a mute floral clamor.

Flame refined dragon-hearted blooms
they consume the oxygen...

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