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Announcing its presence it snook in above, through a window that I'd left ajar, no time get up and give it a good shove to close it, the distance was too far. I was in no position to choose 'fight or flight', my options were cut down to just one, that was sit very still ( I had some time to kill) and then make a move when it had gone. When it comes down to fear, and I'll make this quite clear things that fill me with terror are few, but one of those things is being stung by a wasp when halfway through a sit on the loo.

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Date: 7/3/2018 2:49:00 PM
nice my friend
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Date: 5/17/2018 7:16:00 AM
Funny! Be glad you're not where I live, I clean paper wasps off the eve of my house all summer long.
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Date: 5/9/2018 11:13:00 AM
Some of a nearby hive of uninvited wasps joined our outdoor wedding reception. It has taken me 30 years to forgive the species, but this year I cart them outside in a glass instead of squashing these distant relatives of theirs.
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/9/2018 9:38:00 PM
Good for you, Jean, I believe in Karma.
Date: 5/6/2018 2:05:00 PM
Mr Viv, I once jumped off of a pump jack (oil well) because of yellow jackets, I hit the ground on the run. About a 20 ft leap. I do not fear them but I highly respect them. A very funny ending for this poem.
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/7/2018 6:59:00 AM
Thanks Daniel, I feel your pain.
Date: 5/6/2018 1:33:00 PM
Oh my. Are you allergic? I can only remember being stung once. I had been playing cards with friends; when I got up to leave I put my sweater and a wasp had crawled into the sleeve. I love the musical tune your verse has...
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/7/2018 7:00:00 AM
Yes, Eve, I once got stung while running for a bus and I dropped like a stone. Horrible. I have been stung many years since, and it wasn't as bad, so maybe I've built some defence. Hopefully.. x
Date: 5/6/2018 9:38:00 AM
LOL - Told with much finesse. Superbly done, Viv.
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/7/2018 7:01:00 AM
Thanks, Line, the definition of real fear, methinks. x
Date: 5/6/2018 8:52:00 AM
LOL Funny Viv , and true! Well done. :)
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/7/2018 7:01:00 AM
Thanks Heidi, I need a sealed toilet. But the missus won't allow it x
Date: 5/6/2018 8:20:00 AM
LOL! Fabulous gripping tale Viv! Love it :) xomo!
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/7/2018 7:01:00 AM
Yes, Maureen, my buttock cheeks were certainly gripping :)
Date: 5/6/2018 6:10:00 AM
ha ha ha - sure made me giggle Mr Viv. Last year I only saw 1 wasp (not that I am complaining about the reduction in numbers of that species!!!) and that was in February when it flew out of my garden shed. Sadly I am seeing a decline in bees and Butterflies:-( hugs jan xx
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/7/2018 7:02:00 AM
Likewise here, Jan, the crap Spring hasn't helped, but there are several bees around this morning x
Date: 5/6/2018 4:04:00 AM
oh dear oh dear....this is a funny write, and SO easy to relate to. ;)
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/7/2018 7:02:00 AM
Could be worse, Eileen, we don't get Hornets often here x
Date: 5/6/2018 2:28:00 AM
Haha all that bare flesh, he would have had a field day, hope you got him.
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Viv Wigley
Date: 5/7/2018 7:03:00 AM
He got wind of me and scarpered, Tom :)

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