Rattlesnake Poems

Timber Rattlesnake

I am a timber rattlesnake
my venom is highly dangerous
I can damage your nervous system
sneakily waiting to strike you with my tongue
lying under a stack of logs as quiet as I can be

Rattlesnake

Rattlesnake

Stealth reptile, scaly skinned viper,
Flickers fork tongue to smell direction:
Slithering through the environment,
Camouflaged to avoid detection.

Snake eyes focus without tail rattling,
Coiling into strike kill position.
Slowly, jaws separate; fangs exposing
Venom delivery of neurotoxins.

The gloom and doom shadow looms frightening,
Mesmerizing, the serpent unleashing.
The rodent stilled, listening for hissing,
Delaying reaction and is bitten.

Rattlesnake

Today I went for a hike up a rocky desert hill
A jackrabbit crossed my trail
Peacefully hopping through his daily routine
I saw partridge birds
Consorting about over the topic of worms
I noticed the ease with which they kept their distance, but otherwise unalarmed
They had tools I didnt have
Flight, speed, I’m no threat to them
And I wasnt looking

Cowboy Up

Appaloosa, Mustang or Paint
Breeds to ride and love, breeds who ain’t
Broken by pain or heartbreak
But show them a rattlesnake
That horse won’t have much self-restraint




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Rattlesnake Hill

RATTLESNAKE HILL
Meshoppen Township, Pennsylvania
					
Every high summer has a magical day
when the forests and fields are impossibly
green, bathed sun-up to sundown in a 
yellow-gold light made lazily kinetic by
high-soaring hawks, busy beavers and bees, 
the ever-cautious deer, the shadow of the bear
The music from the kitchen is “Samba Para Ti”
somehow softly Santana in the early afternoon
where

My Lucky Dig

Have you found a snake’s rattle while digging?
I did once.
I carefully covered it back up too.
As soon as I saw the zig zag of the fat one’s skin.
Thanking God I had uncovered this end rather than the other one.

Rattlesnake

rattlesnake
slithering toward sunlight –
buckshot

Preterition About the Rattlesnake

"Granny, tell me about the snake in your garden"
"No, child let's not talk about that rattlesnake with blade in"

"Tell me the story one more time do it with rhyme"
"Child, you're too young to hear how that snake crawled in the sweet thyme" 

"Tell me, granny, just one more time how brave you were"
"It happened so

Rattlesnake

Body coiled and ready to strike,
         rattling tail betrays his trap.
                  Hooded eyes stare through desert night,
             

Rattlesnake Meets Fate

rattlesnake meets fate
crushed by loaded garbage truck...
buzzards' high protein  

A Rattlesnake In Georgia

Haiku one of my first poems on soup
rattlesnake


Georgia rattlesnake
venomous dangerous foe
hidden in garden  

A Rattlesnake In Georgia
Metamorph Revision

To the herb garden meandered
   Some squash needed picking
Gloved hands and a six inch long blade
   No thoughts of snake sticking

Rockie our Rat Terrier pet
   Jumped 'pon retainer wall
Then back down

Rattlesnake In My Garden

Two summers ago
Armed only with a hoe
Went to the garden
Hoping the ground not harden

Twas a nice summer morn
Just for gathering corn
Got to the herb raised beds
Thought I'd some basil instead

Pulled out my knife
To cut some spice
Spying some movement
Fell quiet as a mouse

Snake, Snake
But no one to hear
My grandson inside
Turned a deaf ear

When first I spied

Rattlesnake

Georgia Rattlesnake
Venemous, dangerous foe
Hidden in garden

I Love Rattlesnake

(This is a fictional poem)

I love eating rattlesnake because it's so good.
I'd eat it three times a day if I could.
You haven't lived until you've eaten snake stew.
It's mighty tasty and it sticks to the ribs like glue.
Some people prefer chicken, pork or steak.
But nothing makes my mouth water like rattlesnake.

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