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Snappers Poems - Poems about Snappers

Premium MemberLife's A Hoot

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Today is the first day of the rest of our lives
No matter how much time we have left
A sobering thought as we reach our golden years
Our number could be up tomorrow, next week, next year...
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Categories: snappers, life,
Form: Free verse

tall Tales

...The Meat Locker 

The largest ice freezer of free-range Texan 
long-horns where mice wore fur to survive
broke down, the carcasses began rotting
thrown into the bay.
The day after, sharks came ...
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Categories: snappers, anger, august, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Ambition

...You walked into my life and turn it upside down, you were certain that I could wear the golden crown, you have been following me from I was a child and you made several stories, books and movie but u...
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Categories: snappers, betrayal, birth, career, cheer
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWobbly Legs

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When I was younger and thought of old age
Thought we all became senile at this elderly stage

It appears I was wrong, I can still go potty
And able to dress this tired old body

Try...
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Categories: snappers, age,
Form: Double Dactyl

Traveler's Regret

...Traveler's regrets

He had been a sailor all his life, a traveler trying to find 
the boy he left behind in the haste of becoming an adult.
An autumnal leaf falls into a stream, follows its cours...
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Categories: snappers, angst, best friend, cinderella,
Form: Blank verse



Premium MemberTexting

...Young geeks, txt with lightning speed,
Old dudes, lol, trying hard to find the next key to text,
w/e our asl may be, we are trying to convey,
our feelings, imho, in a cryptic language.

Codgers ...
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Categories: snappers, funny,
Form: Free verse

The Sea Is Deep

...Deep is the sea

A cook on a ship sat on a pollard drinking beer
when he got up, the ship lurched, and he fell overboard 
He swam on his back, moving his arms slowly
thinking, if the meat he had...
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Categories: snappers, beach, change, history,
Form: Blank verse

A Traveller's Regret

...The traveller’s regrets 

He has been a sailor all his life, a traveller trying to find
the boy he left behind, the haste to become an adult
an Autumnal leaf falls into the stream follow its cour...
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Categories: snappers, absence, confidence, imagination,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberHow Jay-Bird Got His Name

...Young James Pruitt was an ordinary boy;
he grew up in an ordinary town.
But set a spell, and I’ll tell a tale
of how some not-so-ordinary things went down.

See, James was a good boy; he did his...
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Categories: snappers, boy,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberLife's a Hoot

...Today is the first day of the rest of our lives
No matter how much time we have left
A sobering thought as we reach our golden years
Our number could be up tomorrow, next week, next year
So we mu...
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Categories: snappers, life,
Form: Rhyme

I Dream of Steam

...The 'tock', 'tock', 'tock' of the station clock, 
the clickety clack of the board. 
Telling the time and destinations 
but no one to cry 'All aboard!'
The 'bang', 'bang', 'bang' of the carriage d...
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Categories: snappers, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Instant Love

...Instant Love
1) 1 Part You(Must be soulmate to Me)
2) 1 Part Me(Must be soulmate to You)
3) A lifetime of waiting.........................
4)A forest of “Falling Leaves”??
5) A shared passion fo...
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Categories: snappers, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSouthern Comfort Beds

...the goslings have shed ochre puffs
                 which are no longer in vogue,
           they're wobbling toddlers now
    too big for the snappers' jaw
           they cannot fly at all- as ...
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Categories: snappers, bird,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWaves - Max

...waves cycle around
ebbing turquoise seas
ripples do tease

waves swim fathoms deep
returning to navy blue seas
smiles of pearly foam

surf currents of waves
navy blue road flows
salty drink...
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Categories: snappers, nature, ocean, sea, water,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberNatural Nature Haiku Chain

...rainbow circle sky
blues greens yellows orange
a dew prism light

rose redolence
lily scent countryside dew
springtime perfume cue

fireflies in flight
bioluminescence bright
a seasonal lig...
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Categories: snappers, nature,
Form: Haiku

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