Short Hisses Poems

snake slithers
    venomous strike
       echo hisses...

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In golden pond
Horizon hisses red
Silhouettes fade blue...

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on the stove
the kettle hisses then whistles -
goodbye yesterday...

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cat hisses wildly
dog pulling leash eagerly
darn dogs hate most cats...

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A slithering creature is the snake
He gives me such a fright
For when he coils up and hisses
I know he’s about to bite...

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mozzie squadron fleets
roaring overhead in droves
dive to ear in waves
scream whining hisses so loud
that my swipes beats my brains out...

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yellow hero's midst
                                       red heroins cover it
                                     dance when air hisses...

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with bold eyes sky sparks
                                    angry light admonishes 
                                    clouds' tear hisses quick...

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a dartmoor pony 
gallops into the bracken - -
an adder hisses

traditional haiku – I don’t understand the modern haiku yet…
for Sidney’s haiku contest...

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The baby walking
Near with flowers in its eyes
A bloom for life's cares

Hands luring the child
While the heart hisses a kiss
Swords from the fire rise...

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The Devil still plumbs the abysses
But girls know his serpent just hisses
If you really care
Let Eve tell you where
She pisses she misses French kisses!...

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 sunlight dances in the lake with the fishes - the jealous snake hisses


Monoku 3: fire, earth, water and air Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Silent One...

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The brakes squeak
and the car hisses…..
a puncture

The spare tyre replaced
the engine revs again
the journey continues.


Bite Size Poem #31 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier...

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What I write is gone the second it hits the page
I write with the frenzy of a wild cat in a rage
It spits and hisses and snarls at me along the way
This is how I write poetry every dashed day....

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The thought of loss is loud
It bangs, clanks, hisses and rattles
Inside of your head all day
Your brain starts to crash
And you start to cry
Your heart starts to crack 
And it's hard to restart....

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the contortionist 
thats what he is by trade
he cannot speak...he hisses 
his curse you could say.

he is silent as night
twice  as deadly too
he contorts around his blades
and he never has a single wound...

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suffocating,
sooty smoke
swirls silent,
serpentine;

coils around,
hisses above
crude contours
of blackened
smokestacks;

strangles the air,
dims morning light,
darkens ashen fog:
toxic smog....

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The bluff, bump and bluster turn
to blunder asunder with hisses.
As ego deflates with a myriad of
mistakes and chaotic miss-hits,
it dismisses an over-inflated sense 
of power and influence
down the off-ramp....

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Simba's an ornery cat says the vet

  During visits both get greatly upset

      Simba grumbles and hisses

         Not at me or the missus

            But at the vet who ain't tamed him as yet

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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A sh**load of sparrows
Dancing on the wires
Spots on my truck


A howling of leashes
Domesticated torture
A cat hisses


A cacophony of phrases
A drumming of woodpeckers
Shouting – quiet please


Unopened flowers
A menagerie of metaphor
Optical conclusions
...

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Brittle.

Composure is a fragile thing
That should allow my heart to sing
So why when all is hearts and kisses
Do I suspect a viper’s hisses



31 December 2018
For Julia Ward’s Explaining Sophie Contest

“Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind”
Sophie Tunnell...

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little coil
shiver and shake
tiny squeeze
squeak
tah dah tah dah

anaconda arrives
need any help? she asks
python hisses a warning
constricting a bit tighter

louder squeak, then silence
dinner’s eyes pop out

python smiles
not about to
share her
lunch
anaconda 
slithers away...

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With passions past, the fever’s broken;
Phone’s unanswered, words unspoken;
Snide asides, accusing hisses-
The sentence served for stolen kisses.

Vinegar eyes from too much wine,
I took and loved what wasn’t mine
Her night late call: “Where have you been?”
The end of the affair’s the greater sin....

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Your soft, lilting lullaby
I struggle and fail to stay alert
Drooping eyelids are hard to fight
Close them, now, and sleep
"Do not wake from my spell" it whispers.
"Sleep for me, my young soul" it hisses
Dreams and nightmares become one
How I long to awaken once more
And to be free of the trickster...

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My love gun loaded with hugs and kisses
when I pull trigger, there won’t be misses
there is no need to hide
there is no use to stride
I got you in front of my gun’s hisses.

                   +++++++

June 18, 2014
Form: Limerick (10-10-6-6-10)
Fourth Place win

** Based on Love’s Labour’s Lost of Shakespeare...

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