Best Pesty Poems

broken shells in drive
squirrels scampering in yard
smart little critters...

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Our mayor was attacked out of town as he went for a peaceful little stroll.
There was an odor that wouldn’t go away, it was left...

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A knock upon my chambered door, silence foregone, it goes ignored,
Too feeble I, coldness instills,...

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Boss, being as this is leap year
and Feb 29th is an extra day
do I have to work tomorrow?
tomorrow being an EXTRA day

He says,  take...

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Not at once, but gradually at my feet
random leaves, brown and brittle
carpenters diligently march in 
leaving my bark somewhat non-committal

Furtively, up grow the undesirables
the weedy...

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Number 15 rumbles a regular route,
Whining about the dew-drop hours.
A friend used to hang on and shout,
"Top-of-the-line!" Sucking fruit sours.

Underrated, invaluable, civil necessity.
Removing debris for...

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I hail from the green land
Really green for sumptuous serenades
But too many grey lepers lay on the succulent carpet
And the milk of my land mills...

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Do You Wonder How You Made It?
By Franklin Price
1/16/2015

Do you wonder how you made it
If you're past your youth and grown?
Was there someone who helped...

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I tested negative a few days ago,
the virus has yet to find my ink
to write another obituary.
I hugged my family and invited
friends for dinner, drinking,...

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Diaphnanous singing in the sizzling heat
The white maggots turn black with wings
Dead flesh melts through a solvent treat
Festering on wounds of paupers and of kings

Something...

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They're gathering their broomsticks
and sharpening their hats
Found catching little spiders
and feeding them to rats

Down pesty little fruit flies
and swiftly soaring bats
All mixing in a cauldron
for...

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I could never really understand
Why some women
Won’t give me the time of day
And seem to look the other way
Or I feel like I’m being hunted
And...

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I fought one piggish Titan and I won
As if that devious Leech existed not; 
Sealing the very firy nose of his gun
With ball-like rags to...

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summer mugginess
rain bringing out pesty pest
biting sting, quick slap
vile blood sucking mosquitoes
brush away annoying flies

8/19/2021

A Buggy Tanka Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: M. L. Kiser...

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It's September again,
Cool, September,
Aloof September,
With her haunting memories.
I refuse to get out of bed today!
There will be no laughter or music and
I have closed the...

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