Short Snags Poems

summer lightning
hits the old tree
bristle brush snags a spark...

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A real dream catcher
Elaborate in design
Snags many nightmares

Russell Sivey...

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They are steered like rudders on ships
Their port lies between my two lips
My day is a drag
Lest my mouth snags a bag
Of Doritos Nacho Cheese Chips...

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is merely a mountain trail away ~ with a few hard slaps on the ass 

and if snags get in the way ~ dangle a carrot to break the impasse 


By
David Kavanagh 

hms...

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It’s not all easy being favoured the great gifted poet
All a deigning and stooping just to let people know it

But that’s not the worse of it and irritating much more
Is my fresh ironed white toga repeatedly snags the door...

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I'm really just a typical girl
With a tentative plan for life
And a longing for love
And an undying curiosity
I just want this to be perfect
Please, just no snags this time
No runs in my hose
Or scuffs on my heels
Just crisp, clean lines
That never wrinkle...

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Can anarchy have empathy?
Yes, in our land of Aussies,
We say no wucking furries,
Always more snags on the barbie, 
Still listen to a bit of Acca Dacca,
More burgers and fries from Maccas,
Frocked up in trackie dakkies,
Yes, it's the land of Aussies,
Our form of anarchy has empathy!!!...

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death is very clear 
                 not like blurred reality 
               where snags just appear
           and if strings remain attached 
              we can find the puppeteer 


Bite Size Poem 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
26/05//2021
Syllablecounter.net 5/7/5/7/7...

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Red kite loses flight 
Bump bump bumping through the grass   
She runs to recast
     Kite snags on a jagged rock
     Rips a hole inside girl’s heart	


3/30/12 - Revised 4/2/12
for "Let's Go Fly a Kite" contest


A big thanks to Andrea for her ideas and suggestions over the past year that have made my writing better :)...

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It seems beauty
Walks through a door
Which has a nail
She didn't see...

It snags and pulls
Until she is left with a lace
Dress torn to pieces.

Naked in a room
Filled with people...
Her man leaves;
She stands alone
As he walks away.

He thinks
She has unveiled On purpose and never
Gives her a chance
To explain.


Cynthia...

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Why do we long to conform to a defined ideal?
And why is that ideal so stagnant and predictable?
The patchwork quilt holds many more stories than the plain sheet
And yet a celebrity will die trying to maintain an image
How do we truly treasure the creative, entertaining snags that only visit on rare occasions?
Let’s bend the cookie cutters a bit....

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Light shines through the morning window...
Through your long dark hair my desire grows..
Barely dressed as we pack our bags...
A night or two away and far from life's snags...
A dinner for us is a candlelit escape...
For five star room we must close the drapes...
Lay and watch the city steal the moon...
For we groove to sounds of our sensual tunes......

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…waiting’s knife
slices time in broader swaths
stacking jagged moments
chaffing minutes raw, in existential unease
…one second snags the next
                       …the knife dulls
moments fray and shred
tomorrow folds today; time’s teeth - rounded
memories meld a transcendent balm
deeply rubbed by fading voices

a hospice hallway dims…
one light - grows brighter...

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Raspberries and Lilacs

Wanting to go back,
heart snags on reality...
wanting to unravel time,
pluck the years off
one by one
Better times paint
pictures in the mind,
but they are air-brushed
renditions

Wanting to bathe
in the perfume of lilacs
Raspberry essence
No choice now

Walk to knock 
on Death's black door
Denied entrance
No gilded invitation
No crashing this party...

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Here squats a Black Widow spider,
who sups a swig of sweet cider.
     He spies her there,
     scoots close to share
and sips the hot brew beside 'er.

She darts with aim to devour,
her size gives her lethal power.
     She fakes a hug,
     then snags him snug;
true bliss defines his last hour.

For some who deceive are gifted
to mask when power is shifted.
     The prey's surprise—
      he's soon incised—
his parts all broken and sifted....

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