Best Snapping Poems

The bucket of beans stares me down
Duty calls accomplish this task
No! Poetry comes first for me__frown
"What about other jobs", he asks.

When will I finish this load__care
Today will slip away from here
Out soon into land of dreams
Make believe and fancy wild schemes

Like the Lilies__ neither toil;...

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 Dedicated to Anil Deo and Belle Bellevue

My muse had taken a nosedive.
No inspiration whatever.
So I was inspired by two great poets,
And snapped off a leaf from a tree.
                -...

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start writing-she said
   as if she knew 
  about the contents
               of her head
     shave off pieces 
      ...

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the snapping turtle
wandering around asphalt
confuses my dog...

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snarling growling snapping
staring glaring daring
old challenges the young
dogs people cows or cats
but wait.... have any of us ever seen an old cow?...

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Part one narrating snapping crackling, and popping trembling underfoot...,
which ushered poetic reverberations across the universe

A snippet of careering and careening
nocturnal cerebral manifestations
attributed to strong medicament
creating soundless clangorous din
ofttimes diabolical dreams
severely disrupt mine ability
to function throughout rest of day.

An adverse reaction 
to one or more prescription...

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Did mind so snap
Over Satan's rap?

I could've been in or out
In high school could scream and shout!

Oh my gosh I'm singed with pain
Constant mark upon my brain

But you can't just give up dreams
No matter how cracked the mirror seems!

Want to give in to being a...

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S n A p P I n G  p H o T o S

GRANDMA’S TV

wall space empty
except for dead relatives
tv antenna flashes
bunny ears
upheaval of chests
Eyes stare

              ~

GRANDMA’S ROOSTER

crimson chair
360 degree spin
past...

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Snapping Turtle

Brawny and mean
The reptile is seen
Oozing out of the mire
Like a prehistoric dinosaur.

The snapper stares
While smelling the air,
Keenly attentive
For lurking predators.

A thick, muscled neck
Poised to stretch
With beak agape, that says,
‘Keep your distance!’

Because it cannot retract
Its head far enough back
To protect it from its enemies
And...

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I've just painted my nails
So have to sit still
There's a breeze coming in and it grazed me
Woke me up and sent me to sleep simultaneously 
I was thinking how I'm enjoying reclining right now (I've been ill all week)
And then 20 something years ago sitting...

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Youth's stream of dancing diamonds
a sparkling frolic without ending
a burst of naïve beauty before the fall
at the brink-the pinnacle of big dreams
youth crashes into the cold rocks below
diamonds suffocate in the dirty foam
In a flash, youth is snapping turtle old....

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Snapping turtle 

The biggest turtle in the world
was gigantic mass of being
in Galapagos they said
all this flesh and shield
was I50 years old
To think once she had been charming
helped her to find the sea
saving her from greedy birds
Lucky was the man sitting on top 
of her making funny...

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Let Me
Make Me
Take The Fall
More Like You Pushed Me
Off The Wall
Down The Rabbit Hole
Into The Dark
Stumeling, Fumbeling
My Breathing Wont Work
Like Alice 
Im Getting Lost
Everything Isnt Right
Time Still Wont Stop
Its Moving Too Fast
Im Losing The Light
The Little White Rabbit Tail 
Is Going Out Of Sight
Sabotashed

Come Back...

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they gather 
grounded
in prayers
like leaves
beneath 
trees

i stand
hollow
naked
numb
in this air

awaiting
winded gusts 
in disgusted
sighs
to snap me

as i tumble
down around them
from life...

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air rockets skyward
uppercutting inside
plastic neon flesh
contorting at inhuman angles
what does my body language spell?

ankles anchored into the Earth
to stay grounded as the wave
of time and space crashes
a flood of stagnant flux

there is a symphony of bones
snapping and cracking
in twisted orchestrations
the act of existing for me
is...

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