rustless rubs
...as though endless life
ants and anthills rise and fall ---
midst snake intrusions
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Categories:
anthills, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
The illumination of the soul
...
(A lone voice whispers)
As a person, you must know
Deep down
You're part of one of the most spiritually
Illuminating
Literary movements there has ever been
A gift sent to you...
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Categories:
anthills, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Final Strike
...confusion overtakes you
as the fog swallows the leaves above
leaving wind soundless
when you boil the sea
rain falls
and yet you ask why
as a child
shocked by thunder
hiding like a rat
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Categories:
anthills, violence,
Form: Free verse
the collective hubris of our indifference to ants
...
We walk the earth as lords of all
only judeo-christian types of course
We crush the weak and heed no call
history is written by the winners
We think ourselves the smartest rac...
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Categories:
anthills, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
Form: Free verse
My Mother Tongue
...I want to return to my mother
To my mother tongue
Like the clouds return to the Ocean
Like the air return to the sky
Like the cows goes to their home
When the sun gets down
As the ants retur...
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Categories:
anthills, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
The Shooting Star
...Deep in the village, far from city's charm and gleam,
Primitive childhood days, with toys of mud we’d dream,
Swinging on tall tree branches, our airplanes up the skyways,
Butt scooting down the an...
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Categories:
anthills, childhood, dream, memory,
Form: Narrative
Across Realms
...
Across the realms of existence now known
dwell some dimensions of which we're not part.
Though sharing our space, diverse life is shown-
some worlds within worlds, alone from the start-
know no...
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Categories:
anthills, earth, humanity, insect, perspective,
Form: Quintain (English)
Landscapes With Anthills
...horizontal landscapes with anthills
ants plant poison pills on mulch trails
solar breezes inspire physicists
the universe works overtime
earth dances with oceans
becomes desert without mulc...
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Categories:
anthills, dark, humorous, insect, space,
Form: Free verse
Monkey Business
...Monkey business
“I say how about
breakfast at The New Farmer’s”
Our day of picking and consuming done
no hunger induced nightmares, we rest dusk to dawn
check on the young ones. Are we a...
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Categories:
anthills, africa, animal, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Upset Humans
...We killed insects in our house without any remorse
We swept clean anthills in our garden without any afterthought
We trampled on insects while walking
We cut trees, made many homeless
We ventur...
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Categories:
anthills, life,
Form: Imagism
Be a Sunshine Machine
...
No matter what happens to you,
You have to be your own sunshine
machine in all that you do!
Angels will cross your path as if
from nowhere.
What a waste of time moaning
about wh...
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Categories:
anthills, encouraging, growth, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Anthill
...anthill and insects
million lives living in ground
trekkers with boots walk
Interesting facts on anthills:
Average ant hill is home for colony of 250,000 ants...
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Categories:
anthills, insect,
Form: Haiku
In the Valley In the Muddy Waters I'Ve Risen-
...I was in the valley
And the walls covered me
But God game along He was is my mountain mover
O'
Aint no
Reason for me to climb
Cause my God, my God makin them mountains anthills
yeah!
Yea a h...
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Categories:
anthills, analogy, appreciation, forgiveness,
Form: Lyric
Anthill
...Anthill
An army of wood ants ,
In Swiss Jura Mountains,
Lift up the mighty leaf
Overhead,to feed
The queen, a fairy , labors in her womb
The males carry thin paper wings, too
Female wor...
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Categories:
anthills, education, fairy, flying, life,
Form: Narrative
Spring Flowers
...Gifts of love grace Spring cabins' still-shivering mantle
Intoxicant scents wafted into every corner -- covenantal
Luscious colors allure tempt Hope in dreamer's hearts
~ 'Till faded p...
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Categories:
anthills, beauty, flower, hope,
Form: Rubai
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