Best Snatchers Poems


Premium Member Body Snatchers

ghouls lurk in shadows

   raking flesh of bloody lizards…

      evening's pulse throbs



beware, in moon’s hour

    kids scream through haze of barbed wires…

      doorknob’s lock  screeches


costumes rip on lanes

     as body snatchers appear

      on Hallow's death trap.



Carolyn Devonshire's Halloween Fright Contest
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Premium Member Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The creepy crud
is out for blood
it takes you while you’re asleep.

The spore from space
is out of place
it makes you non-discreet


You do your best
but have to rest
you wake up with a new brain.

Lobotomied,
Can’t get surprised
wont get angry again.

Apr 13 2010

Ode To the Child Snatchers

Ripped and torn from parents arms

Causing psychological long term harm

Children being left traumatized

In detention centers full of cages

Various kids of various ages

Susceptible now to sexual and mental abuse

Who in hell was it it that gave you

This right to use these innocent kids as political tools

Guess it's nothing new in truth

You only have to watch the news

To see the atrocities you do

To kids in Syria with that war and death

Have you no compassion or morals left

That you can destroy kids in this way

And why are people not taking too the streets

Why are they not doing something

Children are disappearing and dying

Or put in cages hysterically crying

The politics of all of this is not theirs

Where are the child authorities that claim to care

This is a human rights tragedy

A crime against humanity

Why is no one being held to account

Brought to justice or being sent down

This age in which we live seems oblivious too

The suffering of these kids that are all over the news

Sanitised it seems now to be

But you can't say you never knew

They say these detention centers are like holiday camps

The Nazis claimed the same with concentration camps

This policy is coming to you direct from 'Mein Kampf'

Like the film of 'The boy in striped pyjamas'

Same fascist rules and traits

Same policies in the world today

What more is it going to take

For people to bring about a change

Don't wait for governments to fix it

Because as it stands its working in their best interests

As a humanity we will be judged

Buy how much we leave others to suffer

And on our lack of action, compassion and trust.


The Body Snatchers

Okay, who stole my body
I had when I was young
It was never in the best of shape
But far better than this one

Semi smooth and silky
Not a wrinkle on the lot
I feel I fell asleep for a century
And this is how I ended up

I now have wrinkles on top of wrinkles 
With wrinkles on top of that
Could someone point me in the direction 
Of where my body could have been left

It had fingers that worked without aching
Steady hands that knew not of shaking
A memory that...I'll get back with you on that
And a face you wouldn't mind dating

My body had knees that were noiseless
A smile that wasn't so toothless
A libido that you could rely on
Instead of the one I now have that is useless 

My other eyes were filled with wonder
Not these made dull and steely gray
If anyone has seem my body 
Could you kindly point me in the way

Car Snatchers Bounce Back

‘Farewell’, we thought the Four bade,
To the angering crime of Raid,
And suddenly they vanished with Brown’s Motorcade,
Sprouting disappearing wings!
‘The Four Accursed Things!’
Off with a B-M-W of superb grade,
Its color, a firm promise never to fade,
And sleekness, a salute to whom had it made …
And into the matter stung cops said to wade,
Badly wanting their hands on them lay,
Plus God who had heard that ‘Farewell’ they’d said,
And wants B-M-W snatching sin dead.
Punitive whips must land their loudest whack
For car snatchers to not bounce back.

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