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Slithery Poems - Poems about Slithery

Premium Member I Choose to Dwell in the Clouds
... I don’t think I have ever written another poem of such emotional intensity! I was bedridden for almost four months. It was at such a desperate moment that I thought of scribbling down my feelings o......

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Categories: slithery, angst, depression, health, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member dowdy drab doris
...Doris was dowdy, drab, and draggle-tailed too Forever frumpy, frightened, a failure, at age thirty-two Jaundiced, juicy-gossipy, jealous, and July jailed Slovenly, slithery, shipwrecked, her momen......

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Categories: slithery, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member where are you going
...Spiny horned lizard Arizona sand digger Flat body blunt snout Where are you going With slithery ugliness Wait up old friend......

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Categories: slithery, animal,
Form: Free verse
STRANGE DREAM
...I glide in dream through musky sky and golden stream like winged birds , in a space ,devoid of words. a golden bull amidst lush grass, adorned with gems and silvery brass, graze in a snowy mead......

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Categories: slithery, 11th grade, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Haunted Cemetery
... The other woman I was not the other worldly one I was with sexy strut she came she did this is what I ghastly did with a ghoulish voice I spooked and thwarted no applause no I never did for......

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Categories: slithery, scary,
Form: Rhyme



Starry Sorrow
...I summoned sorrow to swallow my soul whole and save it from its sinister solitude. I stared at the stars sailing against a surf of sunless skies. I spoke to the sleek sand in soft whispers, ent......

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Categories: slithery, sea, sky, solitude, sorrow,
Form: Alliteration
Gone fission
... So I am going away for a couple of days Where? Well everywhere and all times I only ask one thing The tree in the garden yeah the one with those juicy red apples yep that one, don’t a......

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Categories: slithery, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Froggie Enjoys His Stogie
...Froggie settled down right away in his delirious state Enjoying his stogie, next to a slithery creature, a snake. The rest of the swamp felt his demeanor calm down. They loved the feeling they wer......

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Categories: slithery, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Psychologically speaking
...Psychologically speaking, women are snakes and men are mice, In the ancient theater of the world, where masks fall and rise in dance, She, the slithery queen of untold stories, an endless paradox, ......

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Categories: slithery, men, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Musical Organisms
...Musical Organisms "Let’s Bungle In the Jungle” Jethro Tull Don’t want to tangle with slithery snakes. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight” The Tokens I won’t be walking in their territory afte......

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Categories: slithery, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hidden In Grass
...I started to walk in tall grass, alas, a snake hides there and I cannot pass. Slithery, slimy, awful, shoddy RUN! instead, I look at snake's body. A tiny snake rests beside its mom, they're en......

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Categories: slithery, anxiety, appreciation, garden, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monster Medicine
...plasma barrier force field pressed against yielding bubble slipping through where have I been precious energy spent with no return foolishly so many verses wasted treasure hunting d......

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Categories: slithery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Creepy Witch
...Creepy witch is as slithery and sneaky as a secretive snake. The other witches give her a wide berth when she’s awake. She only appears on Halloween every tenth year or so. We truly do not know wh......

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Categories: slithery, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Living With the Enemy
...Truth’s not just in the beauty of our trees cherry blossom it’s pervading bouquet the falling confetti Truth’s whatever hangs from the tree like branches and fruit perhaps that lynched r......

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Categories: slithery, allegory, dark, humanity, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unbroken
...Left alone in a dreary mood, utterly broken With none to lean on and look for, She tethered her soul to sordid gloom, And chained her fancy, never letting soar Dull were the days and sore were ......

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Categories: slithery, angst, depression, success,
Form: Free verse

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