Animal Ant Poems

Red fire ants dance
In a pattern on the ground.
I am hypnotized....

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Six quick legs scurry the dank tunnels.
Where I trek eyes are not needed,
For us, the scents are roadsigns
And I count my paces like mileposts.

Our lives...

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When two ants engaged in territorial fight;
Ant army around awaiting the result right;
And I was filming the war despite their bites

Wrestling, boxing and kung-fu, they...

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This tiny sinister creature
lives in suit of armour.
The workers everywhere are seen,
obedient to the queen.

She is mother of everyone
and each of them a clone.
Her darling...

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Watching the marching ants, while I wondering their monotonous strife,
A weary one left the line, away he walked to a lonesome land.
Hands on head with...

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There is so much in my yard that delights me.
I can sit inside and love it, or I can lie in the grass, on my...

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I once sat and observed the movements of an ant as he moved across my bathroom floor. He was headed in one direction, and for...

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There once was a little mighty ant
Who was extravagant and arrogant 
Known to be exorbitantly militant 
She was so combatant and petulant
They nicknamed her My...

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THE ANT
Every crossword buff will know 
That the ants are real hard workers
If you look at how they go
It would seem that they’re no shirkers

But...

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An ant
Stumbling on a soft dish towel
Overlooking a vast area
Rugh and bumpy

Behold
What a vastness!
Says the ant
I just can’t reach the end...

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Carries a cargo twenty times her weight
with her pupil following, keeping pace
sniffing with antennas scent of the bait
she had left to retrace steps through the...

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Poison dripping down,
Countless invisible screams,
The subjects are dead,
The Queens tomb unmarked unnamed,
Her Empire is no more....

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11/19/2015

Ant

Aren’t you a little guy,
always working so hard.
Audacious? No. But strong
and loyal to your queen.
Although, think about this:
Are you ever hungry,
appeasing Antoinette?...

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It tip-toes around
Or buzzes above
Its wings trailing behind
Like a bridal train
But unlike the bride
Walking towards new life
Your life is short and uneventful
In a few days
You...

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