Short Snake Poems

Short Snake Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Snake by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Snake by length and keyword.


The Snake

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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Premium Member Snake Tidbit

Snakes are meat-eaters, fangs, swallow food, no eyelids smells with tongue, scaley. Date: 09/06/2019
Form: Haiku

Yaldabaoth embellished in his shadows

Caliginous eyes
Fearsome face of sickly white
Lion-headed snake
Embellished in his shadows  
With flaming orange beneath
Form: Tanka

Mottled Water Snake

Mottled Water Snake
winds through the turpid, foul pond.
Look! A fresh minnow!


Winner 9th Place: 1461 Brian Strand (4/9/26)
© Uncle Bob  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member snake spirit guide

my snake spirit guide
represents transformation
signifies a change

shedding old patterns
embracing new beginnings
deep intuition
Form: Senryu


Premium Member No Antidote

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poisonous gossip

rattles from coiled lips... venom

with no antidote

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10/26/2018
Form: Senryu

' a Snake In the Grass ... ' 19th Senryu

‘ A Snake In The Grass … ’    19th Senryu



    A Snake In Tall Grass
Strikes, Bites and Cruelly Laughs …
     ‘ Did It Hurt’  It Asp
Form: Senryu

Snake Bite

as it travels through his veins,he struggles for life..through snake bite.


Contest:Monoku 5:Cliche by Silent One.
*Only time will tell*
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Corn Snake Meal At Noon

snake devours mouse
children in the class all scream
teachable moment

teachers idea
I hear it from my office
where are the phone calls
Form: Senryu

Hatch

• I found a tiny snake egg • I wonder if it will hatch • I've heard they'll hatch faster with heat • So I lit it up with a match
© Salmon Oid  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Walkin' the Dog

I walked my dog down by the junction
When he had a canine malfunction
He jumped on a snake
A bite he did take
And now he has reptile dysfunction.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Kansas Black Rat Snake

kansas black rat snake
foot longer than my garage door
where are you going

i name you blackie
glad you are a mouse eater
youre welcome to stay
Form: Senryu

Premium Member squeaky feast

the abandoned house was full of mice
I brought in my snake, Mr. Nice
he made sandwiches of each little beast
I watched him gulp down his squeaky feast
Form: Rhyme

Stinking Snake

A man tossed a snake in a lake
to the bottom I thank, that It sank 
and it sit there awhile 
with a big fang smile
cause it needed a bath; for it stank!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Giant Lizard Snake

Dreamt of a giant lizard snake last night
Gave mother and me a horrible fright.
A nightmare for sure
Believably pure,
Creature was an abhorrent ugly sight
Form: Rhyme

Fartesimal Fleebely

You’re a yoddering snake of fake!
Feeble Farrell Farrelly! 
I’d disembowel the bark of a tree of three
To rip out your organs and feed ‘em as fishery food!
fun

Your Nothing But a Snake

slittering reptile
                                           glides cool and so collective
                                                  amidst the rock bed
Form: Haiku

Premium Member A Third Base Snake

Mark Reynolds, Arizona Diamondback.
With a baseball bat, you take a healthy whack.
You can hit home runs without a doubt.
Why is it so many times you strike out?
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Snakes Lot In Life

The slithering snake Knows not, the thrill of running To attack its meals. His reputation, the "sneak" Draws fear from every creature.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member A Brief History of the Snake

   The snake sidles up to Eve
     from God she soon seeks reprieve

   With us yet, it slithers into Halls of Power
     injects venom ~ brave leaders cower
Form: Couplet

Premium Member SNAKES OF THE GARDEN

SNAKES OF THE GARDEN 

One snake sits curled up;
Another hangs in a tree.
A third one crawling:-
All of them thought provoking; 
Especially, the treed one:-
Form: Tanka

Shrike Bird Supper

A fat scorpion crawls towards the snake
And the shrike bird is watching from afar
To pounce on both of them
At an amazing speed
So that both of them
shall be his supper

serpent mound

under the serpent mound prudent
demons (NOT monsters) preserve the
nuts and 
endosperm meant for
later day 
postmen to deliver
when the time is
all too convincingly ripe

Premium Member SNAKESKIN

MISTY as the powder of my soul
The demi-god of legend
Haunts like snakeskin 
Wandering my dreams
Igniting my being
Begging for your touch
Smoldering my loneliness

Forever

Premium Member A Crying Snake

scream from the snake's tail got a tad reckless, my scene. The fruit you shouldn't eat. as lost as I am, oh god. Evil had dissolved the brain.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

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