Mother Snake Poems

As I walked through a meadow singing a song,
I heard a hissing voice say, "Hello. Come along."
It came from beneath a patch of thorny weeds,
whispered,...

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(Parody of "Mary Had a Little Lamb")

Timmy had a long fat snake, long fat snake, long fat snake.
Timmy had a long fat snake; its skin...

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Where is your daughter? I asked my new neighbor.
The four-year-old or the ten-year-old?
The one who wants to show me her pet snake.
Oh, that’s Charming. She...

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Bias has for animals better named Beasts:
Creatures that could us shake in strong seats
They are the ones Satan ably schemes their use
In battles real rather...

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A vagabond once in a colorful ‘kurta’ 
And a turban wound round his head
Came into my house, one afternoon
A snake charmer,
Carrying pretzel serpents
In a wicker...

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What a Charmer
She was a snake charmer’s daughter
Mother did all the same things before her
Her mom did it best
For she was well blessed 
Her daughter...

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I have seen them stand outside my door,
pleading mother to help stage their show,
on our verandah with stony floor,
tattered clothes, hungry child, wife on tow!
...

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As is said, we are He, who we seek
Today, let’s find out together
Love beckons, we try to take a sneak peek
But fears and desires tether
Veiled...

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Where are we headed
Where do we go
The snake is two headed
It’s bite is close
In the garden of eve
Will we persevere
Is this maroon mystery
drenched in black...

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I doff my many hats away,
To a lazy sunny Saturday,
Lounging, lazing and lying about,
Doing absolutely nothing but nowt,
Just loving and dreaming the day away.

My love...

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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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Dreamt of a giant lizard snake last night
Gave mother and me a horrible fright.
A nightmare for sure
Believably pure,
Creature was an abhorrent ugly sight...

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mow, mow a cow says
calling her mother
bow, bow a dog says
seeing other

cow likes hay to eat
dog likes meat to eat
the food items depends
how they like...

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blood in quotations
                you are just like your mother

 ...

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It was a cottonmouth they said.
I pictured a dentist pushing a bunch of cotton in my mouth.
After they had put my gums through torture.

“I hate...

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