Best Shoo Fly Poems

they till the soil
with a simple plow
pulled by a horse
they've weaned

no electric
nor vast education
only hard work 
religious dedication

a simple people
of limited skill
yet a divine community
of love thy neighbor

you see them
on horse and buggy
a painful sight
for speedy drivers
who live life too fast
to notice a smiling beard

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This fly's been avoiding me
As I have a fly swatter
He is quite a large horse fly
Finally he's near

He lands square on my shoulder
Can't swat him, he will bite me
And he did, ow, he can bite
Andrea's bitten

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Linda-Marie's "!!!BITE ME!!!" contest

4/6/2012...

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late spring so I spy 
a fly goes by he wheezing 
buzzing in mine ear
~
so I swat at him
and  then say hey what's up, yo
me don't stink what's up
~
buzzing in mine ear
no stinky here just abundant
aroma of sweet

5/10/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr....

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