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Best Snip Poems

Below are the all-time best Snip poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of snip poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Grandeur of Fall

Red, orange and yellow fill the valley
Like a bucket of paint, spilled on the trees
Water reflects autumn's grand finale
With colorful leaves, waving in the breeze

The...

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Categories: snip, autumn, beauty,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Asp of Grief
ASP OF GRIEF

She buries her head upon this asp of grief —
soft with reptilian fangs, hard with poison.
Her covetous husband lies upon the Nile’s reef.
She...

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Categories: snip, beauty, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Favorite Word
My favorite word. . . now what could that be?
To choose it, I have to think so carefully.
If I choose by its meaning, I simply...

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Categories: snip, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tree Troll Twister
A three-toed tree troll
tried to trap a leaping leprechaun
with a black claw bear paw trap.
But he stubbed toe three in the trap in the tree,
Snip...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snip, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Love Reckons For a Second Time
When love reckons for a second time,
like a drum, it comes on fast and hard and strong
until two hearts in synch beat passion’s song.

Sometimes second...

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Categories: snip, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member And Then Are Times
When Love comes pounding on a drum,
      it comes on strong and fast and hard
     ...

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Categories: snip, love,
Form: Free verse
A Wary Woman
I’d love to say that ‘Crusher’ Webb is one good mate of mine,
but old ‘Crusher’s’ temperamental and can act more like a swine,
and it don’t...

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Categories: snip, humor,
Form: Rhyme
I Shudder To Think
I SHUDDER TO  THINK 

I  shudder to think about the way 
Some  vegetables are  abused every day -
With physical  and...

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Categories: snip, funny
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Okay But What Do I Say?
The poem you wrote missed my heart
it had no words of emotional chew.

After reading the words, what could I say
you'd said them all but they...

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Categories: snip, on writing and words
Form: Free verse
The Dragon and the Rose
Outside of civil man’s well tended garden,
A field of briars willfully encroached,
Threatening the peaceful flowers without pardon.
Oh these gardeners fought hard as the briars approached.

“You...

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Categories: snip, love, passion, beauty, flower,
Form: Ballad
The 44th President
The 44th President “one who is blessed” in Swahili,
Happens to love his wife’s Shrimp Linguini.
His desk, in the senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy!
Renegade...

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Categories: snip, black-african amer
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cockadoodle Don'T
Hens and Roosters in the barnyard
living in symbiotic relationships
each searching for kernels of corn.
Taking turns with beaks they snip
scorned and pecked. What the heck?

How hard...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snip, conflict,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Revenge Is Not Always Sweet
People in my school have names for someone like me.
    Freak, crazy, weirdo, a spawn by the devil's decree.
   ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snip, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Garfield and Jon
Garfield, a loveable famous, lazy cat,
Who likes to eat and eat, that’s why he’s fat,
Jon his companion, Garfield’s friend or foe dude,
On call twenty four...

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Categories: snip, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dumbstruck Is Me - Dk
Dumbstruck Is Me (a rhyming, acrostic kind of thing)


Discombobulated, how apt the word
Utterly gobsmacked by the absurd 
Mind numbingly mortified at the nonsensical 
By waking...

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Categories: snip, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

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