Best Snakelike Poems
Below are the all-time best Snakelike poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of snakelike poems written by PoetrySoup members
When Scorpio Goes DarkAntares' red glow bears firmly down
upon plush, chartreuse carpet
lying prone against the obsidian expanse,
blanketing sections of a remote
blue sphere, purling,
spinning helplessly
through distant time...
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Categories:
snakelike, space, stars,
Form:
Free verse
Nothingness
“Nothingness”
Words
lines drawn
unending
dusk
to
dawn
characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind
where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows
and snakelike
moves
outside the lines
electric
we become strange
symphonies sublime;
engraved in...
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Categories:
snakelike, muse,
Form:
Free verse
StillnessShe glides out of the room on tiptoe,
As graceful as a sinuous ballet,
Sliding past sad memories that flow,
Staring, scowling eyes upon her still prey.
As graceful...
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Categories:
snakelike, abuse, analogy, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Pantoum
Power of the She Vixen That Oft Souls DestroysPower Of The She Vixen That Oft Souls Destroys
Silk sheets graced her sweet, welcoming night bed
promised relief from pain, sorrow and dread.
With such treasure offered...
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Categories:
snakelike, betrayal, conflict, dark, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
I That Troddeth Through Flames of Hades To BurnI That Troddeth Through Flames Of Hades To Burn
I that troddeth through flames of Hades to burn
Sheddeth my blacken, snakelike and scaly skin
As glowing embers...
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Categories:
snakelike, art, dark, evil, humanity,
Form:
Sonnet
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes...
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Categories:
snakelike, america, conflict, history, together,
Form:
Ode
Honeymoon On the Flying ScotsmanWith a snakelike hiss, the train doors close
the engine rocks and rumbles on clicking
over welded metal couplings: iced, glazed, froze,
the steam heat in clouds arose,...
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Categories:
snakelike, travel, vacation,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Praise DancersThe Praise Dancers…
In stilled silent
space
between garnished tables,
the word exploded:
gyrating motion
spilled out
here and there;
yet
bare clapping hands
and naked feet
made
no sound.
Staccato movements
shot...
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Categories:
snakelike, analogy, celebration, dance, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Storm WarningThe gathering storm rattled snakelike over distant hills,
Heads of dust and debris thrown as charcoal relief
To the vast expanse of the sky;
In the drought of...
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Categories:
snakelike, death, history, life, loss,
Form:
Blank verse
For She, This Victory Was Gained- Sonnet Number 2For She, This Victory Was Gained- Sonnet number 2
You that loved her for her long, yellow hair,
I for her grace, charm and...
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Categories:
snakelike, age, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
snakelike, passion,
Form:
Romanticism
Letters: Reduction-Finale For Circling MomentsGazing,
Greek letters display of curious origin.
Impregnation skin softly writhing aware letters
Sea
Alpha, Omicron, Tau, Psi, Mu, Rho, pass through all the rest and each other figure...
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Categories:
snakelike, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry HallSinger Sir Mick Jagger
Walks with a swagger
Wriggling snakelike hips
Pouts with big rubbery lips
Texan model Jerry Hall
Is very skinny and tall
Their Bali wedding wasn’t valid
Mick no...
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Categories:
snakelike, celebrity, humorous, music,
Form:
Clerihew
Tittering Tottertittering totter is not a high heeled smoke alarm nor a ship
Valve number eighteen is open said the rasping snakelike male. Slithering. Pipe like gatherings...
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Categories:
snakelike, allusion, aubade, baptism, bible,
Form:
HereI see you're still here,
drowning in the ginger beer.
Peeking, pilfiering, scraping the veneer.
Snakelike, with a sneer.
Don't misle that horny steer-
please watch your language, dear.
Uch, why?...
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Categories:
snakelike, friend,
Form:
Free verse