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
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
Asp of GriefASP 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
My Favorite WordMy 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
Tree Troll TwisterA 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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Categories:
snip, humor, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
When Love Reckons For a Second TimeWhen 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
Categories:
snip, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Wary WomanI’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 ThinkI 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
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 RoseOutside 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 PresidentThe 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
Cockadoodle Don'THens 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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Categories:
snip, conflict,
Form:
Lyric
Revenge Is Not Always SweetPeople in my school have names for someone like me.
Freak, crazy, weirdo, a spawn by the devil's decree.
...
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Categories:
snip, dark, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Garfield and JonGarfield, 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
Dumbstruck Is Me - DkDumbstruck 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