Snagged Poems - Poems about Snagged

Barnyard gossip was a buzz Old goat had snagged himself a young bride Farmer Jones wiped off chicken fuzz And promptly ran back inside Come see! He told his wife. It’s true. The bride wore white, she carried blue. Other farmers came by to see. Old goat made some kind of history....

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She strapped on those heels and clicked away Knowing she would soon be his queen of the day. He tried to ignore her, but she was jazzy and cute. He did not have a chance, this smitten galoot! What was it about her? His mother asked him. He stammered and stuttered, this giant, big Jim. It was her feet, they were...

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They shouldn’t use barbed wire in a nudist colony If they do it shouldn’t be much higher than your knee At Christmas time in England, no-one expects nudity Well I was nude and I did not expect a buzzy bee I tried to leap the barbed wire fence to stop it stinging me So now I’ve got some nice new...

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SNAGGED We trod the dusty path home from school, mottled with casuarina shadows. Gurgling ripples gave way to deep pools, my brother skipping stones. Khaki Campbell ducks brought chuckles. Tipping back their heads, water dripped from beaks, filtered, from their prey. One day at the brook, a back-cast. The hook snagged our friend in...

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~Geared for island-hop, boat's wheeldrive jams but spares us--from coming rainstorm When Plans Don't Go to Plan Contest For Silent One 8/25/2020...

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Hot August, 1974, I was back for my second year at college, having just settled into a new place at Anita Apartments, right next to the guys’ apartment complex called Tanner’s. My first night, we answered a knock at our door. Steve Dietrich, a friend of my roommate, entered our apartment, but my eyes went immediately to the younger man...

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SNAGGED We were both outcast, Not understood, Settling for second-best. Both strangers to self. Demons, nightmares, questioning sanity. A lifetime ago she’d felt only lonely, Old, weak, unprotected, lost, until Snagged by a net one day And delighted she could not escape From the lone, strong angler Who reeled her in ...

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