Best Snug Poems

biting icy winds
thermal clothes protecting me
from the winter chill

12th January 2015...

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23 January 2010

A Snug House


 
A snug house on the prairie
Where family members return and urge to nestle
Stoking intimacy has gone past timely reunion
During pluvial and winter season, it withstands

The pineal form of its roof
Where nestlings kept and fed by their mother bird
Also life-giving when...

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I saw my wife tonight
She was on my brother
with the words...no... letters...
abbreviation of some college
plastered on him
she kept him warm
like she did with me
hugging the curves of his
body
he held her closely
appreciative
her softness unspeakable
caressing him
He smiles 
looking at me 
breathing her into him
as I did her
"Thanks...

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portholes
round by design
in sides of ships and planes
encircle scenes of sky and sea
plugged snug
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The Old Farmer Rests Warm In His Snug House

Within green grass in fields in Minnesota
an early Fall, a flaming sword to swing
no horses galloping in Dakota
yes, that damn lying woman lost her ring.

a rotten world dying flecked with you
your broken left wrist eating its sweet...

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cozy in knitted rudolph hat
complete with antlers
feeling powerful
tiny owl peers at winter
loving what he sees...

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The taproom is a crush. 
You slide between heaving shoulders, 
squeeze between pockets
of overheated laughter 
to a small room set aside, 
a place closeted in smoky isolation.
Here the barmaid appears on the half hour or sooner. 
Mostly she’ll let the ‘snug’ be,
while a clot of...

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Looking at the flames 
eyes closed and my thoughts are hushed,
snug serenity....

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Snug in the corner I saw the lad lie,
Fire in his belly, a cork in his eye;
And wordlessly sleeping, a-snooze in his bed,
His words, when awakened, go straight to your head.

Alluring to look at, golden is he,
There when you need him as sure as can...

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