Short Snipped Poems

Delilah was hoping for pearls
But Samson thought she'd love his curls
Come on!   Be fair!
Who wants dead hair?
So Samson got snipped like the girls....

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A short-sighted barber named Dave
Bid folks to 'Sit down and be brave!'
With ears and neck snipped,
Departing they quipped:
Whew! That was a very close shave!'


Bite Size Poem No.42 Poetry Contest
Sponsor :Line Gautier...

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I cut my hair and dyed it this morning.
On the way out of the bathroom I snipped another piece off.
My eagle-eyed-first-and-last-husband said “Don’t tell me you cut your hair with my kitchen shears.”
So I didn’t.
I just put them into the knife block....

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GREAT NEIGHBOURS

Yesterday as the afternoon was coming to a close
The doorbell rang, it was Vanessa holding a beautiful rose,
For you I have just snipped it,
Still communicate, two metres apart seems fit,
Was touched, Vanessa and Neel’s, best neighbours, it shows!...

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I met you in the room of hope
Your arms now clean
You signed my notes
I clung to you to stay afloat
You looked down and snipped the rope
Your delima cut my soul
I see now your hearts not whole
You tell me lies they all hear
You give me gifts for all to cheer
I know how deep your ego breeds
You'll never have what you see
Your soul will whither all alone
My love for you no longer grows...

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INTERRUPTED    FLIGHT


I remember
The pigeon man
Could take a bird
Recently hurt
From a window or wire,

And holding her in giant hands
Could smooth her feathers
And stretch her wings,
Tucking in her down
And ziplocking her ruffled plumes,

While she snipped at his fingers,
Her trembling heart racing,
Until he returned her to flight,

And her eyes shone as she soared,
Repaired....

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Memories are being snipped like flowers.
Putting together shades that scent like oil.
Melt almost like yolks pleading on towers.
The work depicts the many threads of hours.
The solder between brushstrokes and bowers 
Fear behind the helmet till its touch spoil
Memories are being snipped like flowers.
Putting together shades that scent like oil.


Written: February 18, 2023...

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twigs quiver	  wild thyme scent	life’s decline
   robins’		       my heart		    ebbing
   songs		         leaps		      tide

emotions		   autumn leaves         ode to joy
 morning		      windswept               starry
    dew		        dreams                  night	
										
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Contest: 1-2-3 or 3-2-1 haiku
Sponsor: Charles Messina
Placed 2nd
© 22nd September 2018...

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Have you ever  wondered 
What it would be like to kill

To stab stab stab
Feel them bleed against your skin

Ever wanted to shut them up
Not with tape, but with no tongue

Ever thought of how beautifully a knife cuts
Or how perfectly it would peel off skin

Ever wondered how blood gushed that wonderfully 
If you snipped snipped snipped

I dont have to wonder 
I've got my knife and it's looking for a kill.

By

Amanda Miller...

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carved cruicifixes,
slashed n’ sliced stars of david,
chiseled taijitus,
hacked stars n’ crescents 
cleaved christs
dissected n’ shaped buddhas,
engraved menorahs
chipped n’ etched away Confucius 
trimmed dharmachakras
whittled & molded muhammad
severed n’ separated astrological zodiac signs 
snipped aum
chopped n’ cracked pentagrams  
lopped off lotus flowers
shaved n’ grated ichthys &
pierced pentacles---
all wash away in the sink
after running warm water over them
for a little while....

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His soft tissue, it ripped
   All his discs, they had slipped
To the ER, the ambulance zipped
   To right this poor fellow's ship

His wife's hand he gripped
   On the worrisome trip
His whole world had flipped
   His wings had been clipped...

The monitors blipped
   His confidence dipped
Liquid steroids he sipped
   Drip-drip, drip-drip

Here the doc snipped
   Over there did he clip
Then he grinned, and he quipped
   'You've no more spine
     ~ Just a postscript.'...

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her lips                             his eyes
    just flips                                tells lies


      her nose                            his ears
            just glows                           snipped spears

          cheekbones                              his chin
                   like stones                              looks grim

                 eyebrows                                lashes
                          just wow                              flashes...

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