Best Snoozes Poems

Weave my blanket snug,
With the fleeciest, graded wool,
Matted thicker than a rug,
Use the finest wooden hand loom,
On a shuttle winded with double woof,
To keep the...

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If I gave you my heart on a big silver platter
would you sit with me here at the edge of the moon
Arranging the stars in...

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Midnight lavender echoes whisper,
As the song of the rooster fades.
Mauve tackles the sky with a blush,
Curly coral clouds are dressed in buffed bronze shades.

Ebony snoozes...

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Birth: Cradle. Diapers. Mess. Cries.
First: Word. Step.
Sneezes. Doctor. Parents Doting Over. Brother/Sister...

Kindergarten: Swing. Toys. Daily Snoozes. Lunches.

School: Teachers. Marks. Principle and Misdemeanors.
Games. Yard. Ball. Tripping....

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Leo living large
Lion lying in his lair
Big belly bloated

Zebra and Zebu
Warily watching, worried
Ready to run

Fatigued full feline 
Snoozes in the savannah
Animals amble


For Chris D. "Aechtner's...

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Softly she snoozes
While the wide world whirls wildly
Never noticing

(fun with combining senryu and alliteration)...

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The yards behind the shearing shed are overgrown with grass
And the fence posts look a little worse for wear
There’s cobwebs on the tractors that are...

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There on the couch she snoozes and lay
Easing her back from a tiresome day, 
Put on music to entice her imaginations
And there in the forest...

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Drapes are closed but the sun gets through
Summer morning, birds a-tweeting
Sweat on sheets, personal dew
Two more snoozes then up for meeting

A chunk of mahogany
Surrounded by...

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The Woman
You are a goddess without a shrine
The mystery we all adore.

The woman.
That myth in your look
Which men gaze in awe
To see your face and...

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Yosa Buson haiku translations

On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a...

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May all sacred,
but not quite omnipotent,
fathers learn this day
as we impatiently correct
our stress-disordered sons

That respect is earned,
so maybe disrespect is too
positive and negative layered
for and...

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Some folks complain that rainy days get them down in the dumps,
Causin' depression and a dreadful case of the grumps!
But I relish rainy days, cozily...

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Cold weather front

 A few good days fooled us the cold weather returned we thought it was 
early spring. I worried if my almond tree...

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Monday's Supper


The boy's heart dance's: 
a trance 
at noon. 
Then he yawns 
like a cock's 
crow,
with a thin smile.
Picking his teeth, 
wishing the night 
fell...

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