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Copperheads Poems - Poems about Copperheads


ORANGE
...A face, like sundown leaning on rusted steel— boasting through storms he promised to end. Lies? They cracked like paint in late May heat. But some talkin’ copperheads still call the tariffs gold. ......

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Categories: copperheads, political, poverty, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Speaker
...Speaker, speaker I'm listening... You’re doing the right thing! Unswayed from Kremlin propaganda Isn’t how our country should swing Faith changed; policies rearranged Soul-searching, ......

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Categories: copperheads, appreciation, political,
Form: Political Verse



One Square Mile
...In one square mile, northeast of Noojee, there are seven birds that I often get to see as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry, in one square mile, northeast of Noojee. A Whipbird crack th......

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Categories: copperheads, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Zest of a Boy
...He toddles toward the pebbles, tumbling the smooth stones over in his four year old palms, rubbing them like Aladdin’s lamp, tossing them back into the mix, impishly shining with the zest of a boy.......

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Categories: copperheads, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Emptying
...Jails-asylums are bleeding out because of naivety. Now the unhinged mad dogs are working out their kinks. On the neckbones of society. Nowhere is safe for your sons and daughters. Not even pine......

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Categories: copperheads, judgement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Animals Commandeered My House
...Raccoons are in the parlor Opossums are on the run, Copperheads are in my harbor They are having lots of fun Chickens are in my windowsills White tail foxes in the hall Sweet piglets in the g......

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Categories: copperheads, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 4 With a Clive Bush Comment By T Wignesan
...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 4 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri......

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Categories: copperheads, england, poetry, poets, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fountain of Youth
...Ozark bound, fifth day of the week On narrow state roads, winding and steep Town through town sparse and sprawling Like dot to dot of a preschooler's drawing Our destiny reached sweet moment of t......

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Categories: copperheads, brother, dedication, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black Rail
...Do you hear the devil's laughter? low within the marsh waters rustling high the tree tops Answer not with prayer but within a smirk of doubt Don't tilt the boat least you fall in and a fat gato......

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Categories: copperheads, bird, nature, water, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Metairie, La
...Late at night I lay in the swamp Waiting for Jesus My Pa told me that the swamp Is where he lives That a copperheads mouth Is like the Mona Lisa’s face And a cottonmouth never strikes ......

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Categories: copperheads, jesus,
Form: Free verse

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