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A coming out Senryu
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David O'Haolin Whalen
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snail, fun, hope, inspiration,
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Sojourn
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Wayne Kingston
| Haiku |
snail, friend, morning,
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Quick Snail
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Bennie6 Haiku Poems
| Haiku |
snail, time,
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haiku xss
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JAN ALLISON
| Haiku |
snail, bird, flower, spring,
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Bless Snail Mail
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Abdullah Alhemaidy
| Senryu |
snail, allusion, evil,
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Threshold
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Wayne Kingston
| Haiku |
snail, garden, journey,
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Mondayitis
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Michael Robinson
| Rhyme |
snail, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
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Snail Pace
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Maurice Rigoler
| Light Verse |
snail, humor,
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There Is A Certain Sadness In Our Home
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Marc Acrich
| Prose |
snail, life,
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Things To Do Before I'm Forty Two
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Nina Parmenter
| Rhyme |
snail, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
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Irony
by Kai Michael Neumann
Tongue in Bloody Cheek
Cheek on tongue he slithers on abundant wilful slime
Checks in with teeth of timeless throaty choking curse
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Categories:
snail, irony,
KNOW YOUR PLACE
by Ewuola Michael
Were the sky an egg, the sun would be its yolk
Were it an artwork, the painter will be God
If rain was virgin silver escaping from...
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Categories:
snail, confidence,
The Good New Days
by curtis johnson
There is coming a time with days of peace, poise, and promise.
But for now, these are the days of conflict, violence, war, and strife.
I use...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
snail, america, courage, dream, future,
Dying Snail
by Maurice Rigoler
A near-to-death snail humbly stated:
Had I lived my life accelerated
I might still be alive to see all hated
French gastronones eradicated.
Then gasping, coughing, he hesitated,
his final...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
snail, humor,
new rules to protect police pursuit drivers
by gate low
new rules to protect police pursuit drivers 22.05.18
it was tuesday morning
feeling low and a bit of stephen fry
then fantastic news was spawning
its like 233...
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Categories:
snail, addiction, allah, analogy, animal,
Critterary Verses: Things I never learned from Marlin Perkins
by Jim Slaughter
Antisocial anacondas don't associate in numbers;
Bears and beagles don't become the best of friends.
Civet cats catch rats, so is it any wonder
On doleful dingoes dire...
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snail, animal, humor,
Beauties and cuties
by Supraja Kannan
Hey,Miss cute little jumping spider;
you are a skilled under leaf hider.
Wow!The crown like eight tiny eyes!
or you the princess in disguise?
Hello, Mr. Handsome Hawk moth...
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Categories:
snail, animal, beautiful, beauty,
Sitting on the Fence at Twilight
by Pandita Sanchez
Sitting on the Fence at Twilight
When the sun waved good-bye in the afternoon,
I’d say hello to the smiling Man in the Moon.
Perching on our...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
snail, childhood, memory,
Snail Trails and Rat Tails
by Gerald Dillenbeck
My transportive
awesome Muse
speaks of a hiking trail
for an aging snail.
My communicative
wondrous music
is dancing choreography
for an ageless bee
coming.
I ask if I might speak
with the Editor...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
snail, community, health, humanity, nature,
To You Only
by Junaid Abdul Wakeel
To you only
I wished presently you own my heart
To you only the imagery like the...
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Romanticism |
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Categories:
snail, adventure,
DAY OFF FOR ABIGAIL
by Line Gauthier
A cocktail waitress named Abigail
Moonlighting as a barmaid serving pale ale
Wore her hair in a pigtail or sometimes in a ponytail
All...
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Categories:
snail, adventure, break up, fun,
Big long German words
by Nina Parmenter
Big long German words are such a banquet for the ears,
They’re scary on the page, but please, just set aside your fears!
For like those German...
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Categories:
snail, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
A FUNNY POEM FOR A 7 YEAR OLD
by JAN ALLISON
I saw Sammy snail leave his silvery trail
it shone brightly on our garden path
I picked him up and put him in my pink pail
then...
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Categories:
snail, children, humorous,
Soon You Will Be Gone, My Stinky Little Pug
by Laura Loo
I posted this first poem on one of my first days here at Poetry Soup. It’s about my stinky Pug Mugsy. He is almost fourteen...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
snail, death, dog, grief, i
Salveja
by Adeyemi Joshua
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I live in a society,
That does not know me.
I live in a community,
That does not owe me.
I feel a stranger,
In my renowned hometown.
And act a...
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Imagism |
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Categories:
snail, allegory,
New Year Sunrise
by Dale Gregory Cozart
Post-drought the winter dawning creeps
across my coarse and brindled lawn,
a molten ocean snail-like seeps
and spreads its early morning yawn.
A lambent thread it first appeared
to rise...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
snail, imagery, sun, winter,
Awestruck
by Dakota Hershey
I ascend the VERY vertical mountain slope
Stepping upon twisty Snake roots and snail shell boulders
I'm a clumsy Billy Goat
The rain falls silently
It leaps off...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
snail, beautiful, bible, body, books,
Inside Perspectives
by Richard Olson
Inside a bell -
the clapper strikes a...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
snail, language, perspective, poetry,
Bah Humbug
by John Gondolf
Bah! Humbug! It’s that time of year;
I can’t understand the reason
why everyone is so full of cheer
just because it’s the Christmas season.
The traffic on...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
snail, christmas, humorous, loneliness, sad,
Unique game
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
When a snail played tennis
against his uncle chameleon
sports fans fell deep asleep
umpire dosed and fell asleep
But the game went on unabated
till birds began to...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
snail, animal, satire,