Short Snakey Poems

Snake pops up out of dead leaf pile.
Grandchildren scream.
Grandma picks up snake, a garter, not a python.
Puts snake on her lap, begins singing a "snakey song".
Everyone's in line, wanting the next turn.
All fear gone....

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S is my hammock, rock me.
t is the cross I hang myself upon, stop suffering nothing.
r I sit in your shade, your arms too long.
e, yes, I eat. Ramen and chocolate muffins do me well, and just poorly enough.
S is for you: smoky, spiky, sexy.
Stupid -
(that one's me.)
Surprisingly, suddenly sweet.
Snakey.

Relief is not what I get from these words;
You want less than me....

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I solemnly do declare
That I had wet me underwear
I got an awful scare
It was pink and purpley and bare
When I looked inside there
And had a mane like a mare
With a one eyed snakey stare
I actually screamed, I swear
When I noticed the neglect and care
It was as big as an ant bear

Until it said "Get a life"
I said "Phew" the thing in the bed is just the wife
Good night...

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wiry wily 
snakily snake
like a load of spaghetti
all coily not straight

roundy and writhy 
curly with flow
like stringy all knotty
and cotton to sew

a scribble of dribble
all longy in length
and bendy and turny
beginning to end

spirally spiralled 
wriggly and roll
wiggled and wavy
like a zigzaggy pole

snakey and snakile
like an old twisty loop
sinewed and mazy 
or ouroboros hoop

so anyway a snake
a snake anyway
did I mention a snake
I think I did say



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