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...
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Categories:
slinking, 12th grade,
Form: Alliteration
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...
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Categories:
slinking, 12th grade, humorous,
Form: Alliteration
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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Categories:
slinking, earth, journey,
Form: Free verse
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 ...
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Categories:
slinking, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
slinking, animal,
Form: Lyric
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....
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Categories:
slinking, animal, dance, humor,
Form: Epigram
weasel
...a lowborn weasel
slinking in verdant grasses
mice tiptoe softly...
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Categories:
slinking, animal,
Form: Senryu
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...
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Categories:
slinking, abuse, betrayal, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
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...
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Categories:
slinking, horror, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme
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,
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Categories:
slinking, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
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...
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Categories:
slinking, death, health, recovery from,
Form: Lyric
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...
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Categories:
slinking, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
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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Categories:
slinking, parents, prayer, psychological, scary,
Form: Alliteration
elk troll man
...Elk troll man slithers out of the crevices of the cave
the evening feels his emotions and responds accordingly
Slinking along the corridor of red canyon’s edges
We wise ones ignore him, for it is ...
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Categories:
slinking, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Awkwardly Realistic
...The arboretum is quiet today.
It is early,
yet too late
to spot a somnambulant space alien
emerging from the thorny bushes.
Do you believe?
I have seen the odd-looking sparrows,
with their r...
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Categories:
slinking, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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