Short Snarl Poems

Coffin lowered to earth

Crimson snarl for Van Helsing....

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A covey of quail
Under a snarl of brush
Out of the weather...

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Let sleeping dogs lie
Don't get tripped by their feet
They come awake with a snarl,
and might think that you're meat....

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TAMED    DOGS    OF   WINTER



The unleashed howl and snarl 
Of the winter winds
Is silenced at last
And their bite is muzzled
And put to sleep by the 
Soothing sunshine of spring...

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Lambs are soft and cuddly
Lamb kins fall short, here's why
Llama crias necks crane
Licky goat kids slobber
Ludicous cuscus curse
Lion cubs bite and snarl 
Leaving lambkins pinups...

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I once knew a poet named Carl
Who found himself in a troubling snarl
A victim of vicious rumors you see
The result of deep rooted envy
Gave him clenched teeth and knuckles all gnarled...

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Shania was an oak leaf cat with ears to the sky.
She was a jokester with barely a snarl or try.
We met her on an autumn day, my buddy and me.
She was sitting on the edge of a huge oak tree....

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Sophie dog’s teeth are showing.
She is baring them.
Who is this strange man who dares slam a car door?
She runs out there, to snarl, to snip to….
Stopping in her tracks to  jump in the
Arms of Daddy!...

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sing me my song,
traffic is hell on me,
long day all along,
dozing is what i feel.

sweet lullaby sweet lullaby,
be by me on this snarl up,
your melody my now sweet pie,
after a tiresome long day full of mishaps....

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Darn dogs nexr door
I can't take it anymore

Woof, snarl, panting, bark
Whining, scratching, in the dark

I'm tossin' and turnin'
Ears are burnin'

Someone put a muzzle on those mutts
It's driving me nuts!...

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Winnie was luxuriously enjoying her bath of bliss
When the cat and kits came in to snarl and hiss
Out! She said, but her familiars did not give her the time of day.
They confidently began to slip and slide and chase and play....

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I never eat breakfast 
since the mornings when, as a small child,
my older brother, 
sitting at the same cheery-blue kitchen table,
would arch one dark, thick eyebrow up from behind the cereal box 
and snarl, “I hate your guts.”...

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Who are they? The oaks asked, their roots in a gnarl.
They are the Halloween cats, we replied with a snarl.
They are prissy and persnickety and they think they’re all that.
Well that’s a typical attitude the oaks said, for a Halloween cat....

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Rufus: Irish Rover Purebred and a Fortune 500 Pup ( As told by Rufus himself.)

Watch me snarl all the salesmen away,
ram the door, keep the mailmen at bay.
Each evening, I break
for a fresh T-bone steak.
The sun shines on my ass the WHOLE day....

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fat and jet black cat
 
                                     glowing golden irises

                                   fierce snarl shudders all 





Black Cat Haiku Poetry Contest
Haiku poetry form only.
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori 
Date: 05-04-2022...

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The flame in contest combats the chill of the night
I see an old man in remembrance of his youth
his words gaped in jest if only to shroud life’s plight
scars of countless carnal lies a hub of untruth.
In the brazier raindrops snarl, routine so trite.

© Harry J Horsman  1991...

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CROCODILE  SURF



Curving surf and plunging
Breakers  open up and and snarl over
And slap down closed,
Crest of breaker a jagged rim
Dripping long fangs of water
Before snapping shut,
And the surfer disappears
Threshing helplessly in the spume
Of the jaws and the foaming saliva....

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They steam,
They glare,
They fume and frown,
My ideas snarl and knot.

They slouch, 
Resentful to be asked.

They stare and duel,
And pout.

Then suddenly - 
A random thing
Flies through the traffic jam,
A buzz of green cicada wings -
 
The tune splats guts
Across my screen.
...

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lightnings picturesque

vehement wind full of zest

pulchritude caution


natural snarl best

do not nictate the eyes lest

it will seem to rest


a relief by waves

racketry from wave breakage

dulcet stir to ears

light illuminates

through a box it radiates

mere simulation...

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A touch, a dance,
a smile, a joke. 
I’ll take any kind of human connection. 

A grope, a sordid hand fishing for pink,
come home with me. 
A mouth bent into a snarl, a hastily thrown obscenity. 

I’d be so grateful. 
Just give me something to talk about,
think about
that isn’t him....

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I'm the primal fear
In the sudden stamp of hooves 
When the danger’s near 

In the snap of fang
The snarl of hate and rage
I am twice enraged

In the lust for life
Know, the bloodline vein runs deep
And I will survive!

A primeval beast
I'm fight and I'm flight – With you
And in you, I feast –...

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I am the monster of
Myself.  I have all 
The eyes and the 
Teeth and I
Snarl and growl.

When I have to.

Myself goes along
With it, because I
Am the boss. It is
Nice to be the boss
Of someone …

Especially when it’s
Myself.  Makes things easier
Less snarling and
G
R
O
W
L
I
N
G
This way....

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meow
at still's darkness
caterwaul thud whine snarl
cats hiss differences at midnight
thud growl caterwaul rapid light footsteps
on top of the house wail screech shriek
sibilant with comrades
on shingled roof
meow

Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Contest: Sound of Emotion
Written by: Sara Kendrick
Date: May 28, 2012...

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Oh! A shilly-shally puzzle it is
an oracle's unfulfilled prophecy
a snarl of vagrant kind it is.
A riddle quite hazy to resolve.
May the impending morrows,
untangle this weird rune.
May the tale bearer blurt out
the augury of my future.
Can it be a mirth or gloom?
The all knowing superior deity
laughs at my uncanny anxiety....

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Joyless the reflection
   from earth to heaven
when winds snarl and bite
   demons roar at midnight

No butterflies dance
   neither doe nor fawn play
The tweet of bird is unheard
   snow-covered life dormant lays
  
Yet as my lips turn to yours
   the miraculous occurs
All sadness' dispelled
   ~ our two hearts in bliss meld...

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