Lost Snake Poems

organize my thoughts
in lines and dots
whatever i can put on the page,
these words that I say
will lead you astray,
As I continue to chase
this source
of endless...

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To speak to a snake from beneath your sheets–
This hissing, slithering, serpentine gaze;
The cadence of patience, your eyes it meets,
And sings to the days long...

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I saw 
some mouses 
and
Two multicoulored 
snakes.

The snakes 
Hunted
The mouses.

After seeing those 
Two venomous
And dangerous  
Reptiles , 

I stoped
Labouring the ground 
To chase the snakes.

Luckly...

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Returning
as a man
woken from the sleep
of lost memory

Daydreaming now
the only option
eyes wide open
images flash

Moments before
become moments after
painting all reference
in shades of gray

Starting the ending
to seal...

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Hello Mr. Anaconda
How fit and fine you look this morning!
Have you lost weight? You look terrific!

I am backing away slowly, not rapidly.
Hoping to buy myself...

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Satan: Recorded First Liar,
His lies like Wings A Good Flier;
God’s Reaction: The First Anger 
That put Poor Adam in danger,
Garden of Eden First Venue,
Four Rivers...

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You first forgive
to then forget
Judgment lost
in past regret
To change the mantra
soul’s unfilled
And cage the snake
—from now until

(Freemont Street Las Vegas: July, 2022)...

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Jake

Jake is a snake. 
He is three feet long. 
One day he will be
five more. 

We found him in the barn, 
he was lost among...

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Losing a friend is truly the worst 
that’s happened to me yet,
especially when I see your face
and voice filled with regret. 
A face I hoped...

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These words were written by a pearl with craft
A child went to Egypt with no quiver
The land of idolatry and witchcraft 
To find a sole...

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Eyes of deep black ebony 
Piercing in their focus fixed stare
They watch with their impassioned intent
To strip my soul bare. 

Hypnotic harbinger of my fate
The...

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I met him often, when he was young, like a pride palm tree,
He charmed and hypnotized his cobra, and made him wave, free;
His puffed flute...

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scream from the snake's tail
got a tad reckless, my scene.
The fruit you shouldn't eat.
as lost as I am, oh god.
Evil had dissolved the brain....

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Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer

Eden
by Michael R. Burch

Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the...

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Today John McDain
Is in bad pain
The sirens could kill
But he escaped it, he will

He's at the doctor,
Who'll give him meds
And maybe just some
Comfortable beds

"There's something...

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