Short Snipping Poems

Sound scissors make,
each time they are 
opened and closed…

Snipping out and ad 
or clipping the hair…

Snip, snip, clip, clip…

By Sandra Lea Hoban
©2007...

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Wise men
Somberly Pondering
Over Imponderables
What if.........
Why not .......

Cut, Cut .....

Master Tailors
Or Gardeners
Snipping at Schedules
And Budgets .....

Topiarists!...

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	Paula Swanson
Contest Name	Thread |

thread keeps onward, 
old mate, dude, 
till the fates snipping interlude, 
forshortens wit... 
dats it... 
concludes...

 by a dummy, shrewd. 

Don ... thanks to Russells Siveys "Thread of Time"...

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vaping and smoking huh, i told you not to duh its like you dont care but you always stare at that girl did she get you into this i will be snipping her hair, you are not allowed to smoke and vape but hey i got you some bape clothing if you enjoy that...

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There is not long before the severing of all.
Sheared off in bloom the rose will fall,
Crushed underfoot, on life’s stone walk.

The moments left to bloom are prized ones still,
Split-second, flowering!—until
Black snipping scissors clip life’s stalk....

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Snipping through the skin
vocal pain ripping my eardrums
Breathing in your blood 
as i wash my sins
in your devotion
Masicate my masterpiece
Notes scratched in her skin
Mangle my manuscript
Snapping my fingers as i draw them down your chalk board
With the final flaying chord
My bow berates your jugular
And my opus is undone
Silence drowns all noise...

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Sweet inflorescence
in Candy's flower shop,
and Candy standing there
in floral dress

She is smiling,
with white teeth showing,
and is inviting you to buy
her flowers

You choose,
and she makes a pretty picture,
snipping red ribbons
and smiling all the while


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5/29/2015

Contest  -  Your Favourite Old Poem

Sponsor -  Shadow Hamilton

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A win...

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Beaches are open and golf courses, too.
Neighbors are meeting for barbecue.
Barbers are snipping like they used to do
But I’m quarantining at home.

Nanas and grandpas are visiting kin.
Sports venues say they’re prepared to begin.
Sunbathers slather their pale indoor skin
While within my apartment I roam.

Restaurants keep tables a distance apart.
Museums let patrons with masks look at art.
So many are ready for life to restart
As I sit here, inside, with my poem....

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Are you a Halloween cat? I queried the preening feline.
Don’t generalize all black cats she said with a sniff and a whine.
I was shocked because surely she knew about the teeny witches.
Who were holding up her ears on broomsticks with snitches.

But I thought, I began to say, apologizing for stereotyping.
She began to laugh then, saying “I was only snipping.”
I was not laughing though, for I did not know her at all.
Of course, I will certainly avoid her when I see her next fall....

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