Animal Snake Poems

It lies in liquid coils
Aware - head raised tongue tasting
Evaporates gone

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Celia was a white witch, but others did not know
They avoided her greenhouse, said she gave a show
Every spell she did with a flourish, for...

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snake
yet should I trust
a tongue in two
what prong
you lash with
lie or truth
be thankful that
your scales
smooth


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there was a snake bathing in the sunset
draped around the veins, the dead branches
winter never welcomes reptiles
but it wore twilight like a heat lamp jacket

back...

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backyard dog barking
     I wonder what it could be
          dead snake on...

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I was walking along a pond
When I felt myself being watched
It was not a creepy feeling
But it was absolute.

This was the first time I had...

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a fat black bumpy snake took me hostage in a roll.
pulled me right down into the farthest darkest hole
What the heck! What the heck! What...

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Praying to the light
Trampling the night's basilisk
With its seven heads
Crushing serpent and lion
Trampling the legless dragon 
Through the light stream that crowned her

This is a...

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I walked my dog down by the junction
When he had a canine malfunction
He jumped on a snake
A bite he did take
And now he has reptile...

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The large black rat snake established residence inside.
When we try to scoop it up she is keen enough to hide.
She slithers and swishes in a...

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The snake dances past them in the air
    Fear frozen in eyes of charming pair
  Hyenas cackle, vultures on high
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Silent stillness moves
	swimming upon backs of dunes
		tracking purpose across currents
of time.

Sampling air
	spilled from hunted lungs
		fates final dance
	upon trails
left by fleeing flesh.

Only the wind is a...

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In a whimsical world, where riddles take flight
I found myself in an enchanted light
A serpentine whisper, soft as the wind
To a coiled snake, it drew...

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This reptile leaves without a trace,
it is a sign of betrayal and disgrace,
it catches its prey with grace,

Don't you take them as merely or fake,
Medusa's...

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Amidst noon day sun,
A green snake has settled
Among the green leaves....

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