Short Cottonmouth Poems

Copperheaded Snake
Highland moccasin dread
Kin to cottonmouth...

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Winter beholds
for Autumn does not yield-
 bare trees none the less...

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cottonmouth slithers
'gator eyes unwary prey
an untimely death

written January 3, 2022...

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Striking like a cottonmouth snake, 
but we can see nothing is real;
Bored and trying to stir the pot,
that plan is going to backfire; 

As honest as a soft handshake 
with your fingers crossed on the deal; 
Slippery hiss within earshot,
You are just a filthy liar....

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There's an insulated home in the south
Where lived one and only old dragon mouth
         From his lips insults spout
         A.C. now heat blocks out
The old dragon mouth still a cottonmouth




Contest: Single Limerick Contest: Horrible Bosses
Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire
*Note on about this poem...

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It was a cottonmouth they said.
I pictured a dentist pushing a bunch of cotton in my mouth.
After they had put my gums through torture.

“I hate cottonmouths” I said.
“I didn’t think you knew what they were,” my mother replied.
“You take me to one once a year, don’t you?” I wailed.

My mother’s friend gave my mother a strange look and rushed away.
It was years before I understood why....

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Forklift tongue ... 
snaky false pallet walk
be a paralyzing pulse dead stop
Viper lung flung from the bottom rung,
slithering slyly to the bury top

Pentagram aborted delivery — 
Fake salvation 
is morgue bad news 
bifurcated breath received

Cottonmouth spitting graveyard shifty
labor blues,
Exhaling extortion sin wage scale dues

Forklift tongue
belly rolls across a serpentine cargo corpse bay
Anaconda pallet walk
got a hangman’s boa rope choke swinging sway...

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