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.
Categories:
snagged, animal,
Form: Rhyme
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 dancing in time.
And those shoes of her were dazzling in lemon and lime!
You are so foolish! Can she even bake, clean or cook?
He stared around his mother; queen gave him the look.
Gotta go he said as he followed his wife-to-be from the kitchen.
He could still hear his mother in there doing some bit…..
But did he care? Not in the least, for he had his desire.
She had clicked her way into his life, and he was on fire.
Those high heeled shoes had caught him as sure as a trap.
He did not care that he was one love-hungry sap.
Categories:
snagged, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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 baubles for my Christmas tree
My voice went up an octave and became a virtual screech
I dashed to bathe my injury down at the nudist beach
On the way I bumped into my camp-mates, Fran and Dennis
They saw my mutilation and said, ‘We’re so sorry ‘Tennis’
And then they said, in future ‘Tennis’, keep away from bees
I asked them why they called me ‘Tennis’, they said... New balls please!
Categories:
snagged, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
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 the base of his thumb. Dad frowned.
Reckon you could hold still, while I open it up a bit?
Robin nodded, gritting his teeth. At nine he didn’t
utter a sound, while Daddy’s sharpest
pocket knife sliced into flesh.
Blood flowed. I watched and howled.
Robin ashen.Silent.
Well, done, son it’s out.
Categories:
snagged, 4th grade, age, character,
Form: Free verse
~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
Categories:
snagged, boat, holiday,
Form: Monoku
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 from the cold water,
Drawn from drowning by the snag-line.
The boy inside him needed her.
The man outside, she needed.
He let her kill his demons.
She began to rely on a supporter
Till she could face truth without apology.
Encouraged to be herself, assert herself,
She began again to expect perfection,
And felt sparkling young, protected and loved.
He pulled her up in his net,
A net which held them together,
And her gills and fins needed smoothing
By his eager repairing hands.
She pulled him closer,
And grew to love the idea
Of a future without snags.
Categories:
snagged,
Form: Free verse