Short Snickering Poems

Snowbound snowflakes sneakily snip and snick the snowy snickering air....

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Can't believe it, only a couple of months to go
Winter's grip will be down for the count, a big KO
Optimistic? you bet
Behind the ears a bit wet
The worst is yet to come, does my snickering show...

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Clock
on wall
snickering
10 minutes fast
waiting on the wings
sipping an Ayinger
one hand playing with the phone
double checking Trenton schedule
another train is gonna get missed
order a shot with the next pint of beer...

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led through the strangest valley
and forest this eve
with snickering, horned, little
phosphoresent faries

carried by cellulose
to my cornea

wicked and vile winged creatures
swept around my vicera until
I remembered it was just a 
movie....

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Why are you all snickering at me

I'm telling you for the hundredth time

Not only am I not guilty,

Damn it, you know my farts smell sublime.





Written Oct. 25 for "WIND SNOW OR RAIN ACROSTRAIN - Poetry Contest "....

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February Feints

February creeps across the mud
chuckling
knowing it is not her milieu
snickering
as she tats snowflakes
whistling
as she scatters them
icily
on freshly chilled winds.


©2/19/2018

submitted to – STANDARD CONTEST NO 70
sponsor – Brian Strand...

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laugh 
                     comical, hysteric 
          guffawing, chuckling, snickering 
cheerfulness, amusement, squeal, caterwaul,
          grieving, whimpering, sniveling,
                   upset, lachrymose,
                              cry


Date created: 06/13/2021...

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After the riot-
with chairman Wuhan swirling around his head
president Trump, with bible in hand,
strolled from the embattled white house
toward a smoldering church
quoted some apocalyptic verse
then cussed out the press...
For the first time in seventeen years
the cicadas are snickering-...

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LITTLE PEOPLE

a rustling outside?
(just leaves in the breeze)
                snickering

my shot of jack daniels
gone!
tiny burp    giggle

my daughter 
    crying
      her tea set missing

coffee spilled
        cat hisses
footprints on my toast

invisible?
no
very quick!

strange -
smoke out the chimney
of her doll house...

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We mourn the death of those
who through a season shared,
wept the morning dews,
their white veined fingers
wave at the rain, snickering,
cling through the breaths
     of gnashed clouds.
Then, each singular body falls
and becomes one pile of many,
like griefs we labor to endure
become memories of many lost
yet never truly...gone....

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That wonders day to day
Down many of life's avenue
Long, narrow, wide, straight
In tatters, rags & old shoes
Looking, searching for a bed
Or a dime, penny to get bye
And a place to call his own
& lay his weary body down
Where he decides & ends up

So when you see god
Just don't pass him bye
Snickering to yourself
Start a convo & say hello...

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candelabra ghost did a cha cha cha
He had the whole mansion to himself
Fiddly dee, fiddly whimsical mccaw
he grabbed two candelabras down from the shelf

It was heavy, sure, but looked great when lit
He lit them both and gave a hippy eye cay cay cay
The mansion began snickering, black cat had a fit.
Cannot please everyone said the ghost, but what the hey?...

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You shouldn't try impressing folks 
above you;

       they'll just look down their noses 
       if you try to,

                sneering and snickering at whatever 
                you do.


Nor should you show off to folks 
below you;

       they'll think you're either lying or 
       plainly lucky;

                envious, they won't give credit 
                where it is due....

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We are in the furniture store.
Oops. Pardon me, ma’am.
We are in the DEEEEE SIGN….ERRRR Store.
I see a bed I like.
I say “I feel like throwing a match in my house and starting over.”
Elise is snickering on cue.
The designer of the month is walking behind us.
I know because I recognize her from her giant photos in the store.
She says “We have matches here.”
I like her but not this prissy store....

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I walked her home
Chatting aimlessly of nothing
Finding words to fill time
As we slithered by the Betty Crocker Shop
Sweet fragrances
Of apple pie and coffee
In a death grip
Pulled us both inside
And forced us to sit at a table
The waitress
A knowing accomplice
Snickering behind her receipt book
Scribbled down mounds of orders
That were forced upon us by the heated oven
Three hundred pounds later we left...

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Laughter soothes the soul
Giggling makes my day,
Chortles will improve
My mood, so they say,
Smiles are so groovy!

Silliness beams
Grin big, my friends
Chuckling at memes
Snickering trends

Guffawing
Gleefully
Mimicking

Joking
Funny

MIRTH 

THIRD PLACE WINNER
written June 7, 2022
submitted to "Diminished Hexaverse - Your Choice" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Caren Krutsinger...

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Noel set me off.
Memories, permutations, 
Eating paper.
My mother in her apron.
Dad with the black bin bag
Ready to bin the now useless wrapping 
and
I thought.

As I heard my children screaming, snickering and howling downstairs.
What would set them off?
Set them off in their driverless car
Minor technological switches
Urine to wash the British navy's kecks
Half an hour rinse
After I've joined the dead
Thirty years from now.
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Funny Man!
By Linda Hays-Gibbs
Oh funny man you touch the hardest heart
With messages to crumble and start
A snickering or flickering to spark 
A laugh a full belly rumbler
A genius of illogical and logical matter
Without him the whole world is astronomically sadder
Oh let our grief someday subside 
That we in heaven will find 
A bench upfront to see his latest comedic job ( I pray)
The jester (Robin Williams) at heaven's court for God...

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Such a wonderful sight 
A horse going into flight 
Captured in a lens 
Documenting by the writer's pen 
For once  a horse was used for war 
And now has a prescence of peace with a score 
May we continue the beauty of a horse show 
Snickering at others athletic events saying 'what do you really know" 
You see it is the beauty of a horse that can never cease 
With its artistic message reminding us all of the word peace 

Marc O'Brien Author/Poet...

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The lion speaks toThe sunbaked wry windsToast the savanaWildebeest trampleUrging with bellows
Mousebirds, DrongosSweltering wingsNervously sitIn Baobabs
SnickeringHyenaJesting to
Laughter’sUproar
Wild...

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Who are the fools
snickering and giggling
behind his back?
Why must they 
constantly mutter 
that he's destined for the rack?
Don't they realize
they grant him courage
he'd otherwise lack?
That their presence
guides his path
through winds he must tack?
And, no matter
his labored breathing
he'll overcome the dry hack?
Is it, truly,
they desire, only,
mere coins to fill their sack?
Or, does he require them
so he may assume
his role as rightful Jack?...

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In dizzy terrors, the ominous, relentless pull
of the numb night; sneers, shortcuts
clumsily trod; meandering the easy paths
where sins and lies are perfected and
nourished into pseudo truths that are
delightfully embraced. A credible potpourri
of slippery stones in a quagmire of guilt.
A quicksand of snickering gravity where
nothing escapes except the last one who cared.
Suffocating in our insignificance, too late for
sincere tears, too late to reach for
             no one....

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In dizzy terrors, the ominous, relentless pull
of the numb night; sneers, shortcuts
clumsily trod; meandering the easy paths
where sins and lies are perfected and
nourished into pseudo truths that are
delightfully embraced. A credible potpourri
of slippery stones in a quagmire of guilt.
A quicksand of snickering gravity where
nothing escapes except the last one who cared.
Suffocating in our insignificance, too late for
sincere tears, too late to reach for
             no one....

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