Slinking Poems

Nonsense Rhyme

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With two left feet
he's clod-hoppery
tho' her little white porkies
are quite whoppery
as he thinks aloud
she's merely frippery
meanwhile she knows
he's really foppery
but slinking a...

All Sewn up with Hooked Tail Flit

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home is hollow breath
without the slinking specter—
soft as velvet dusk
with purrs woven into seams
egos stitched with hooked tail flits

a silent stalker
keeper of embers in flame—
you wal...

SNAKES AND LADDERS

...SNAKES AND LADDERS*
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slinking silently
slithering in the shadows
serpent's vicious spite

look to the ladder
looming long in languid lines
life’s lofty ascen...

SERPENTS’ SOIREE

...SERPENTS’ SOIREE
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Slinking silently, a slithering sight,
Seven silly snakes, under starlit night,
Sassy scales shimmering, shining so bright,
Sipped s...

The Jungle Untamed

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Written: July 29, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France

Quote: "You Are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop." by Rumi
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Paraphrase

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A paraphrase is shadow's child,
slinking in hallway white tiled.
It wears the shape, fills not the skin,
Echoes of fullness are lost within.

It carries a bag of phrases worn,
Tired entrails ...

Silence Broke, Animals Spoke

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Oh, God bless the beasts,
that have no voice, 
that have no choice.
We can't really see  
the world they see,  
or know what they truly want and feel,  
until they can talk to us 
in a prope...

A Snail's Chances

...May I have the pleasure of this dance?
I hope I have a better chance
than the sliding snail you see and stalk, 
slowly slinking on the sidewalk....

weasel

...a lowborn weasel
slinking in verdant grasses
mice tiptoe softly...

Eat All You Want

...Chinese trollers
Cranes and pulleys motor oil saliva
Fishhook cockroach antennas dipped to the oceans
Thousands of sailing creepy crawlers
Bandits with razors

Cross the boundless seas
Devours...

I Breathe

...I breathe; I think; I slumber and I wake
I feel; I hear; I scream for pity’s sake
I push; I shove with little left to give
But six feet neath new fallen leaves, I live

I breathe the fumes of my...

After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race

...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race...

Planet earth (the Mother of all)
breathed a collective
and palpable sigh of relief,
and I too deeply exhaled,
...

Stay of Execution

...Everything in my life was going down
I lost hope for my country, my state, my town
A black dog followed me, I was weighed down by care
Saw a neon tiger in the dark, at day a spectral mare.

Offe...

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the p...

Seeking Safety from Sex-Sells Socials

...Salacious, sultry
Simplistic signs of
Seedy sensory
Semi sentimental sales on
Socials
Surreptitiously
Slinking ..
Slowly
Sliding into your 
Sphere and
Psyche.
Psychologically
Seducing
So...

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