Best Swarms Poems

Emerge the invocations of begotten falsehood.
 Lying dormant.
My screams no longer withheld.
Anointing savagery bred of ancient tongues.
This depraved submergence beckons in a righteous hand.
Born of opposition in the courts of folly, enormities ascend to the arch of flame.
Emptiness divine.
Adversary! Consciousness springs fourth with teeth, capturing...

Continue reading...

swarms of cicadas
ravage the bloomin' orange groves 
u-picker scratches


May 26, 2018...

Continue reading...

Male bees are useless layabouts
Gather no nectar or pollen
Can't feed themselves
Have no stingers
Yet World War III
Will be fought with a swarm
Of a billion, billion drones
Some made of cardboard
Mind how the malingers
Have risen, supplanting
Planes, ships, tanks, missiles and subs...

Continue reading...

Luciferin Flies

Swarms of them form now—
An evil portent for sure!
Shades of illusion . . . 
	An evil that’s palpable . . . 
Now’s your last chance to escape!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
November 2, 2018 (Tanka)...

Continue reading...

My gentle sphere, fitted more, still.... I spared
Spattered words of heart, yet! Not purloin
Bit by bit are words of him, slowly cared
His circumspect steps I look, always in cocoon 

Be like a Mickey not to add to your meek
Being sportive and an erect stamen, could...

Continue reading...

I
Wet sky, I
Must greet morning
Rewards my eye
Flying beings swarming


II
Birds, bats, locusts?
Suddenly swarms sundered -
Sundered by Comorants
Usual places wet
None for drying
Winged variety morning
Commuting to feed
As employees do
Routines go on
Beautiful -- wet, too...

Continue reading...