#555

snakes and serpents lie undisturbed beyond my feet my breathing stops dead

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Written for the Tricycle July 2022 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, snake, or serpent - but was not entered.

#554

a snake in the grass

and before me, let one take

the other away

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Written for the Tricycle July 2022 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, snake, or serpent.

#553

the longest moment

eye to eye with a serpent -

it ended sharply.

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Written for the Tricycle July 2022 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, snake, or serpent.

#552

a line in the sand

not even to be approached.

on seeing a snake.

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Written for the Tricycle July 2022 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, snake, or serpent.

#551

a snake round his staff, before me to heal, he said. it devour’d me whole.

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Written for the Tricycle July 2022 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, snake, or serpent.

#550

forever staring -

its snake eyes burning through me,

daring me to move.

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Written for the Tricycle July 2022 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, snake, or serpent.

#549

serpent out at sea,

looks as lonely as I feel.

the surf eats my hisssss.

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Written for the Tricycle July 2022 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, snake, or serpent. 

#548

serpent out at sea,

harbinger of a new age;

we all brace ourselves.

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Written for the Tricycle July 2022 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, snake, or serpent.