Ants Ants Ants
...In every crevice where I look
Every cranny, every nook
Creeping, crawling in their hoards
It’s my world they head towards
Swarming over every leaf
Numbers that defy belief
Out of holes, from...
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Categories:
aphid, angst, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Nettle
...Soup and greens,beer and tea
buttlerfly young just love me,
aphid trap and liquid feed
ladybird heaven,yes indeed!
I love phosphate & nitrate soil
such versatility reduces toil,
my leaves quick...
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Categories:
aphid, garden,
Form: Personification
Cyclical Questions
...there’s a problem with faith.
Yes, I’ve seen mothers with interlaced fingers
& optimistic minds will god into
sick children.
Faith firm as cinderblocks,
building retaining walls against floods...
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Categories:
aphid, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Lady Bug
...She eyed open like a broken mirror.
Her mother claimed
that her legs were bowed
so that she could catch the moon
between her black knees on moonless nights.
Tiny mandibles chewed her leather t...
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Categories:
aphid, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Re: Egret Forsaking Gull Friend Where, Heron Eye Twitter
...I re: egret forsaking gull friend where, heron eye twitter
Fictional account related
courtesy one pink flamingo.
Aves lusting for verboten tweet
reed lubricious sin after giving
Twiggy anot...
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Categories:
aphid, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Wheat Plants
...Like soft green grasses we have grown,
Less than halve we have our self shown;
Our heads happily swaying in the air,
Physique painting fields in green color;
At the irrigation of the poor farmer,...
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Categories:
aphid, nature,
Form: Free verse
Humid
...The night ended in smoke.
Sleepwalking fumes
rolled over the park,
perambulated in groggy circles,
then got stuck in the tree branches
where they hung as thick
as melting du...
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Categories:
aphid, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Light Wings and Gossamer Black
...
"Light Wings and Gossamer Black"
tears of all the lost years
ghosts' pearls falling softly gossamer black
caressing your sad heart’s crimson
its bleeding broken bea...
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Categories:
aphid, dark, gothic, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Do You Have a Garden That You Really Love
...June 10, 2020
Do you have a garden that you really love?
One that you don’t mind digging in?
You don’t even mind if the Ladybugs eat it
That only kills your aphids dead.
I love my garden!
I...
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Categories:
aphid, cousin, earth day, environment,
Form: Verse
Pest Aside
...Political standards are falling
To a point some say is appalling
The Elephant said:
"You've got to wear red
And knock on their door, "Aphid calling"!...
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Categories:
aphid, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Big Crunch Hypothesis
...The Big Crunch Hypothesis
in times past it all had felt so distant
I was an aphid in an unkempt garden of eden
and my eyes, they were far too dim, too weak
and the view was far too vibrant
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Categories:
aphid, feelings, growth, i love
Form: Free verse
Easterly
...Bouquets of eastern starlings, raving.
Reaching out, fledgling saving,
The garden sloth of heaven's hues
Living in a bath of saffron dews.
Darkend the plough that snails follow
With troug...
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Categories:
aphid, art, bible, christian, death,
Form: Lyric
A Sunny August Day
...I have just been confounded by nature on so many counts. I have been commenting on bumblebees not being seen in any quantity over most of the month, and today two species. Not abundant, but present, ...
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Categories:
aphid, nature,
Form: Haibun
Lucidity
...i was a child, pushing aphids into and popping them under my fingernails, letting their green corpses gather like dirt before sucking my fingertips clean.
my mother caught me and slapped my hands aw...
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Categories:
aphid, addiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Garden Fruit
...Today I picked the garden fruit,
To make complete a tasty meal;
And came across an aphid brute.
Today I picked the garden fruit,
Beside my house of holes and root;
To emphasis my scalloped veal....
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Categories:
aphid, garden,
Form: Triolet
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