Best Bats Poems

Bats on the Barrow


When gravel grows quiet on the tow path 
the light intrudes on the town
Horse Chestnut's grow so dark
as the old stone bridges great span

Crows hold conference in tall trees 
children abandon town parks
Then swallows take one last look
before the bats appear in...

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the number of deaths
         
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Sonar clicks midnight crooner
Sound waves invisible medley 
Resonate throughout 
The mischievous ears 
Black silent strikes
food fare delights 
Mother Earths night 
songs can't escape 
Incendiary terror 
Opera dancing wisp
Bouncing back-and-forth
Life and death struggles 
bats out of hell...

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mostly
happy
ever after
hanging 
upside down from a rafter

giving my cherished name
to short splintered sticks
that hits long balls
out of sight
both day and night and

did I mention the difficulty that I have 
in going while hanging upside down
God made it so that 
I must move to move
and stand...

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Nightmare from the jungle
Vampire Bats attack cattle and people
Transmitting deadly rabies

When they carry the deadly virus
Some indigenous children have died

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Albtraum aus dem Dschungel
Vampierfledermäuse im nächtlichen Angriff
Überträger der Tollwut 

Wenn sie das tödliche Virus tragen
Indiokinder mussten sterben

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Pesadilla de selva
Vampiros atacan al ganado y gente
Transmisión de rabia...

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Major League Baseball
used pink bats for Mothers' Day
they smacked the ball good...

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tiny black shriekers
swarmed the evening sky above
cordoned the estate...

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Shadows almost swift
Beyond learning's reflection
Quivered from the eaves

I thought thatch did smell
Strange upon the nose urban
And made words polite

Hanging on child's eye
Though the myth dead came to life
And blood shrivels still

What song when they're gone
Shall spread my relief like stars?
Bats drove black the sun....

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Acrobatic bats circle dark English fields gulping hairy insects joyfully,keeping lazy men 
napping on porches,quite regally snoring together,until various wild xenophiles yell zealously!...

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Gothic citizens in black slickers
hang precariously in the
sinful caverns of the dark underworld.....

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When it isn't  asleep it will be
Upside down from the branch of a tree
By it's instinct it knows
To keep eyes and mouth closed
Every time it needs to have a pee.

For contest ' make me laugh', sponsor Christine Lehmann
26th August 2016...

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Like the hordes of bats which surround
the belfry of our old clock tower
wild images scurry around
pressing my mind without referee.

When the moon and stars appear,
illuminating sea and sand, 
sights unseen which ears can hear -
my incessant tongue may set free.  


written July 2016
I promised myself...

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glowing eyes frighten
flashing through the hot night sky~
in the grotto Pups...

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There lives a puppy named Weasel
She's almost big as a diesel
Artists paint her on their easel
She can be found digging up bones

Her heart is as wild as a deer
She's amazing - she's without fear
Her hair grows in spite of the shear
She eats so she may...

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Unable to escape my fate,
alas I am a denizen of the night.
As darkness descends my adventures begin.
Such freedom in soaring flight, 
a freedom that humanity will never experience,
exhilaration beyond measure.

Under the magic of the midnight moon
I live my life.
Skimming ponds and lakes,
scooping up water, so...

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