Snugged Poems | Examples


Your world in my garden

I was a seed in soil
snugged in the womb of my Mother Nature
ready to shine under rays and rain
to sprout my fruit and shake my leaves
to grow a thick spine and wrinkle under heat
to greet the wind under waltz and words
until the breeze whispers me to sleep.
I intend to be nurtured by the elements 
in chaotic destruction and scenic growth
for my earrings to hang low 
on the branches of my cherry tree.
Low, so animals may eat 
Low, so they may pick 
and choose the ones they desire most.

I was a pearl in their world of oysters
tucked in a bed of pleasures
rested in an ocean of treasures,
crafted
to be selected
for the beauty of riches
strung from lace
on the napes display
attracting the eyes of suitors and the envy gaze.

I was a root
ripped from my youth
and all my innocent fruits
fell from heights of doubt
and begat the chance to sprout
again and again had I prayed
for a dove or another love to come my way
in a dream or from above
i’ll sit in your garden of bluff
i promise to not move a single grove
just tell me i’m beautiful once more
just before i have no choice but to go.
Categories: snugged, art, i love you,
Form: Rhyme

Blood Waves

Heated by sun and rock
a mottled snake licks the morning air.
Last night, stones were its eyes,
a blood-chill had frozen the flavor
            and flicker
of tongue and taste.

The daylight is already sun-crushed,
                              heavily it crumbles,
dry churning a scant green
to withered acres,
grinding all beneath its hermetic heel.

A rabbit runs a racetrack behind its eyes,
long whiskers sightlessly search
reaching far from their hidden hollow,
its brown pelt dreamily brushes over
                                a rounding horizon.

Snake uncoils, breaking boulders of blood
between warming bones.
A cage of hoops unlocks a hunger.
A blushed mouth is snugged around
translucent fangs,
    bodkins that smell out
all small-pawed scrabbling’s.

Rabit ears twitch as eyes leap awake,
it hears the serpents lithe unhinging,
senses its scaled unclasping.
An immediate pulse quickens,
vibrant tendons of awareness
                          animate joy and fear.

On the quiet breath,
visions of life or death arise
          as speculative ghosts.
Now the sky must record
            while the earth forgets.
Categories: snugged, poetry,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberLets Be Together Forever

sizzle sizzle schwizzle smizzle
drizzle pop pop sizzle sizzle
two fresh eggs, snugged up in a pan
became a couple – Bea and Dan.

Let’s be together forever said optimistic Bee
Dan kept his yolk shut; how naïve she could be.
Okay, agreed Dan who made up a “together forever” song
This was seconds before breakfast, which was not very long.
Categories: snugged, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnapest Intrudes

In the dark of the night, on an All Hallows' Eve,
as I lay down my head and got snugged in the bed,
'twas a shadow that bloomed, caused all senses to leave,
as a huge hairy spider crawled, eyes gleaming red!

Out in front, a large sack that she shuffled along,
so I watched as she loped with that load full of gore,
like the beat from a dirge or a horrid old song,
da-duh-DUM, da-duh-DUM, as she moved 'cross the floor.

Shaking hard, to the edge of the bed, silent crept;
There she was, hairy legs, abdomen bulging fat.
Sweaty palms, frazzled nerves, in the darkness I lept,
closed my eyes, held my breath, threw my slipper - Kersplat!

and as she scuttled off, protecting precious eggs,
I wondered how she'd sound with two more dangling legs.

---------------

for the All Hallows' Evening Poetry Contest
sponsored by Craig Cornish
written on 10/19/22
using anapestic tetrameter for the first 12 lines
and iambic hexameter for the last 2 for effect
(howmanysyllables.com incorrectly reports line 3 as 11 syllables due to the ')
Categories: snugged, scary, writing,
Form: Sonnet

When Nighttime Sings a Villanelle

I sing the gentle villanelle,
A villenesque so slightly said,
Howbeit the nighttide casts her spell.

And now the rune I know so well
Remains, remembered, in my head;
I sing the gentle villanelle.

As evening leaves and shadows dwell
The golden brightness all but fled,
Howbeit the nighttide casts her spell.

The flowing verse, her tale to tell,
Inhibitions adrift and shed,
I sing the gentle villanelle.

And owls resound about the fell,
The day replaced with night's instead,
Howbeit the nighttide casts her spell.

Yet me, contented, in my shell
Warmly, snugged and safe a-bed;
I sing the gentle villanelle
Howbeit the nighttide casts her spell.
Categories: snugged, good night, night, poetry,
Form: Villanelle


Devoid

Three petals down, I feel moss-grown...
Nightcore is the tempestuous phrase, 

She feels withdrawn, I reclose,
He indrawn his heart, I disclose... 

Until this night is over,
All alone, I can't fight my fear, 

Trapped in my anxiety, I battle the four walls,
Fragile piety, am a wrecked gall... 

Snugged in my heart, infinitely a hold to.
Categories: snugged, grief, heartbroken, i love
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStill Determined

I’m going to break this Beak loose
Got my mind around in circles Duck Duck Goose’
Been through 
‘Life’, Milton Bradley
Speak my mind,Expressing my feelings while Genuinely showing the real me.
Have you listened to my story?
What I have faced or what I have seen.
I have had to fight through life, body left scarred inside, outside and in between.
Red headed Black sheep of tha family.
Been through the most and still hold the biggest heart yet they are still determined to break me.
Been told I wasn’t going to be it.
So, I added it to complete my outfit
Snugged it on tight to show my silhouette fit.
Been told, I was soft and weak behind the tears that fall off my cheek
But, my tears just soften the beast.
Before the pain becomes words that she regrets once they roll off the tongue as sentences when released.
Categories: snugged, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Virtuous Voices

I was cocooned in cares under
                                a juniper tree;
My spirit swung briskly into
                           a stormy sea,
The blast and billows rolled into
                              my serene soul,
I had to pen a priceless piece
                              to make me whole.

As I rushed to find a release
                               in my room,
I found my muse in the petals
                               of morning bloom.
As the sunlight sweetly snugged
                               the scary scars,
I penned a priceless piece for
                               the morning stars.

The tough teardrops that fell
                                were the ink
with which my hands drew
                                a luminous link...
Between my grave challenges and
                                my cheap choice.
The result was a priceless piece full
                                of virtuous voices.
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_perfect_place_881997
Categories: snugged, how i feel, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNotcher Mama's First Choice

NOTCHER MAMA'S FIRST CHOICE
       (White Boy Rappin)
There's a whole lotta nuthin thacha can't get free
it's the price you pay for whatcha wanta be
if ya gotta have a reason then ya just don't see
you
just don't see.
there's a curtain on her window and it's snugged up tight
if you's peepin through the curtain she is dyna-mite!
she will meetcha in the parlor and she doesn't bite
you
just don't see.
she's a little understanding but she won't say how
if you ever read her number you could call her now
she has wrote it for a reason on the bathroom towel
you
just don't see.
If you think you gotta leave she can turn you on
if ya ain't got no money then you best you gone
with a hunert in you pocket you all set to dawn
you 
just don't see.
She's a little underhanded when it comes to love
if ya don't know she's planned it whatcha thinkin of?
If ya prayin at her curtain, does ya need a shove?
You 
just don't see.

© ron wilson aka Vee Bdosa the Doylestown Poet
Categories: snugged, addiction, racism, rap,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMidnight Fright


     Midnight...
           snugged tight,

     count sheep...
           asleep.

     Awake
           with shake!
     
     My fear
           soon clear...

     pup Nate
           fled crate!


October 22, 2016
Categories: snugged, humor, night, scary,
Form: Footle

Silence Rules the Night

silence rules the night 
 shadows move about 

 rain falls like tears 
 weeping wind bows to 
 no one 

 yesterday has been packed away 
 tiny boxes and envelopes 

 stored in the unsuspecting minds 
 of the lost between you and i 

 finding it hard to find my way home 
 overtook the moving day 

 cluttered thoughts of you 
 is stored in this fog escaping the end 

 more shadows become new 
 separating the gifts of life

 who's ? 

 in this darkness i can see 
 over come by the dense fog i can feel 

 the fact that nothing is said is my fear 
 i want to declare my innocence 

 silence is the night that hold the deafening 
 screams of death of yesterday 

 snugged away in there rightful places 
 counted and numbered perfectly composed 

 file cabinet, rolodex eyes finding it's part 
 who's part or what part is mine?

 silence rules the night
Categories: snugged, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

It Was Time...(Ii)

It was time.... 

The clock stopped ticking... 

Hummed in bliss, a few dwarfs 

And sprites.... somewhere.... 

Droopy leaves glistening in late-night dew 

He slipped into the blanket of ink-blue sky 

Comfortably snugged 

In the pillow of pink clouds 

I conjoured upon him 

With a gentle kiss, wrapping him 

In dreams woven by my lullaby 

And I whispered.... 

" Sweet Night! My White Goblin" 

  

The stars that spectacled 

Marvelled subconsciously 

At the thing called 'Love' 

And burnt and vanished 

In their own envy... 

  

He leaves last 

For he knows how hard it is 

To let him go 

And ere my eyes could open 

He kissed 'em gently 

And whispered 

"Goodbye! My Sweet Champagne" 

And I knew then that 

It was time.......
Categories: snugged, imagination, love, mystery, naturesweet,
Form: Imagism
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