Best Snicker Poems

you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Metallic city howls like a wounded animal
scraped by nocturnal vigils
of grandchildren and elders
emaciated like tuberculosis lungs
gasping from chug-chugs of tobacco soot...
and the face of a...

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Between the trees tall figures

Sisters hidden by perfect mirrors

Behind shivering trees pale and drawn

Shadows snicker at glories dawn



Fairies draw near flickering sheer petal wings

By quivering...

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Some people call it breakfast which makes me snicker and giggle
It might have been since it starts with a pancake or two
except then I add...

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We fell in love and married young,
others said we couldn’t know.
Who else could truly know my heart,
or which way I should go?

We all must choose...

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My glucose is too high
My salt test says it could kill me
My weight is over the limit by a pound
My X-ray is dark and dim

But,...

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They came from "farawayland"
to arms held open wide
welcomed without question by the "Man"

The starving and the homeless
can't begin to understand this
how could someone even do...

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I bent over to touch my toes
               and the ground tore...

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(Base USO club, Zweibrucken, Germany, 1963)

Of a lazy afternoon, I sit
     propped up,
Bones aching, sorely tired from
    ...

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Life is like being a passenger on a luxury ocean liner 
 That is sails across a Sea of Turmoil.
 Passengers feel safe by putting...

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We are extremely jealous of her sandals, the ones with the glitzy silver rhinestones.
She has worn them twice this week. But who is counting? 
We...

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READY? GO!

Ready?
GO!
Round the ramp and up we go
Hold it, wall, stop! Slow!
This is not fair, you have
A motor in there
I have to use my hands!
Watch...

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A walk through the meadow seems in order
The sun is peaking through some wispy cloud,
Coreopsis is in full bloom along the border
While verbena and cosmos...

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It makes the stomach churn
Twist, turn, pure torture
A foolish fairy-notion
A nightmare come true

It binds you - not free
It blinds you - unable to clearly see...
it's...

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Remembering that Valentine’s
Is just an off kilter lie
And love is cruel and hateful
A salted drink splashed in your eye

Perhaps you will live your life
For no...

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