Summer Snake Poems

"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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Let me tell you a story
One day, near summer’s end
Martha and her husband
Went canoeing with a friend

Suddenly a log’s there!
And what can Martha do?
Then she’s...

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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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in blooms grass and trees
lazy like these summer days
snake snakes the hours by...

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summer at the lake
small children laughing loudly
snake slithers through weeds...

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raspberry bushes
basket in one hand
~ other shooing snakes



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on June 1, 2018...

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That summer night we raised our tent
   beneath the moonlit, star-filled sky.
A day of hiking we had spent
   along Australian trails...

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Those eyes that flicker in yonder light
flourish like snakes during summer nights
So seasoned and cultured unshaken they float
Though none can tell what’s pristine or trite

‘tis...

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