Nature Snake Poems

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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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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1

sunflowers ring
teenagers ChatGPT
Sapphic know-how

2
her décolleté blouse
and see-through saree—
curve’s vanity

3
a curled snake
with fangs ready to poison
love’s narrow passage

4
sky’s canvas-
disfigures in no time
my funny face

5
she wrings her...

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On snakes gleaming skin,
scales shimmer like morning dew,
armor compliant.
Old flakes shed for new,
As silk snake skin is rebirthed.
It unfolds, hardens.
The scales slide over,
intertwine in sliver...

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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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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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I started to walk in tall grass, alas,
a snake hides there and I cannot pass.
Slithery, slimy, awful, shoddy
RUN! instead, I look at snake's body.

A tiny...

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He is lifted above the deserted wilderness as a snake
His tail is the starlight river that flows into delight 
Christ bursts forth the brightest river...

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"One swallow does not a summer make."
-- a fabulist frank on nature's Reality

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The garden snake possesses such a charm,
his...

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Desert drought left this sinner dry.
The cloudless sky would not say why.
Frugal cactus shared water free.
God has been merciful to me.

I will not mourn the...

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while moving today I saw a small snake 
     it was slithering away
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snake slithers through grass
   focusing on it’s victim~
    eagle flies from sky
















*Bald eagle’s eat snake, however it’s not their primary...

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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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