To The Snake Poem by Denise Levertov

To The Snake

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Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck
and stroked your cold, pulsing throat
as you hissed to me, glinting
arrowy gold scales, and I felt
the weight of you on my shoulders,
and the whispering silver of your dryness
sounded close at my ears --


Green Snake--I swore to my companions that certainly
you were harmless! But truly
I had no certainty, and no hope, only desiring
to hold you, for that joy,
which left
a long wake of pleasure, as the leaves moved
and you faded into the pattern
of grass and shadows, and I returned
smiling and haunted, to a dark morning.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Andrew 22 October 2020

Good but can u write one about a snake with 2 stanzas 3 lines each and the 3 lines hve to rhyme

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Samia 20 September 2018

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Denvor Fernandez 02 February 2009

This poem symbolically represents the sexual experience of a woman. the long wake of pleasure of it.

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