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Best Swatted Poems

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Premium Member Drawing Blood: Join In
There's a pesky mosquito hoverin' around our ears
If he keeps it up he'll soon be splattered in smears
T-Buzz tries to draw our blood
When he gets...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swatted, humorous, insect,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Fly
NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swatted, angst, humor,
Form: Prose
Baptism By Fire
He squealed,
Like a pig in heat
Praising God for he believed

He sat, 2 years old 
And he looked at the lord
Drew an angels breath
Swatted a toy
A...

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Categories: swatted, bird, celebration, cool, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Two Bee Or Two Bee
Two bee or not two bee
swarming bout me bed
I swear for sure I swatted one
I sure hope she is dead

Oh no she must have gotten...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swatted, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Sexy
My neighbour her name is Matilda
She used to step out with a builder
She loved the exotic, but became quite neurotic
When his lovemaking no longer thrilled...

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Categories: swatted, humorous, sexy, silly,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Conflicting Thoughts
she is scarred so deeply inside
yet she chooses to remain beautiful
gloom of darkness engulfs her
yet she dons a mask of brightness
stab of humiliation slices her...

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Categories: swatted, angst, appreciation, beautiful, depression,
Form: Free verse
Crying Hands
These once nimble fingers,
pinned diapers on your behind.
Swatted the misbehaving toddler,
when you got out of line.

Held you the first day of school,
applauded loudly as the...

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Categories: swatted, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Having a Bad Day
Today I had the roughest day that I have ever had.
Of all the crazy, wacky ones, this day’s been really bad.
It started when I first...

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Categories: swatted, funny, imagination, day,
Form: Rhyme
Fault Lines Re-Drawn
There was a great asthenospheric disruption
Followed by parallel volcanic eruptions
There was a great, abrupt tectonic shift
In a moment, a million years of continental drift

The ground...

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Categories: swatted, allegory, corruption, creation, earth
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ps: Take Note
P.S.: Take Note
We are met again 
at the crossroads of delusions
reminiscing failed choices 
and broken promises;
here we stand once again 
in the vanity of illusions
reflecting...

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Categories: swatted, allegory, analogy, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Solomon Cook 1820-1900
Solomon Cook

1820 – 1900

It was a miracle. 
I entered this wicked world with
Mother’s umbilical wrapped around my neck like a noose,
Inside a cold cabin made...

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Categories: swatted, absence, death, eulogy,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Ida Kincaid 1866 - 1903
Ida Kincaid

1866 - 1903


I was Ida Kincaid
Wife of Charles
And mother of a pernicious brood of five sinister sons.
My first born required eighteen hours of excruciating...

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Categories: swatted, death,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Farm Auction
An unsophisticated feller attending an auction could find himself in a pickle!
The nuances, subtleties and gestures used in bidding could cost him a pretty nickel!
A...

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Categories: swatted, funny
Form: Rhyme
Revolution
I am no revolutionary
For mine is not an ideal
A noble statement
I ain’t gonna give a speech
No riling up crowds, riots
This ain’t no cause
No movement for...

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Categories: swatted, destiny, slavery,
Form: I do not know?
Fuzzy Socks and Crocs: Hideous
Sand flows much too quickly in that goldarn hour glass
I'm no spring chicken, but I'll have to take a pass
If a guy thinks he rocks
Wearing...

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Categories: swatted, humorous,
Form: Limerick

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