Best Swatter Poems
Below are the all-time best Swatter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swatter poems written by PoetrySoup members
Lord of the FliesHarassing me for days now
Landing on my eyelid
Nosing up my nostril
Tickling my ankles
and every other exposed body part
Little bastard...
Fly-Swatter? Jack be nimble, Jack...
Folded bath towel?...
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Categories:
swatter, angst, insect,
Form:
Light Verse
An Evening at the HomeWritten: March 5, 2012
Updated: March 11, 2012
Listen to nurse's report including the news
that Joe and Wilma like each other.
Check all rooms and find that...
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Categories:
swatter, caregiving, life, people, light, light, march,
Form:
List
Eye knew itEye knew it
The dirty fly has compound eyes
It sees in all directions
A swatter swats it anyway
So much for eye protection
Randomling Contest August 30, 2015
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Categories:
swatter, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
swatter, flying, humor, insect, sound,
Form:
Couplet
Land Ho-Ku
dragons fly
burning fodder
land hoe.
sea gulls fly
over water
"Land Ho!"
pesky fly
dodging swatter
"Land! Ho!"
deborah burch©
4/11/2012
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Categories:
swatter, funny, life, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Little Miss Poet and SpiderLittle Miss Poet, Sat at her computer, typing the morning away.
Along came a spider, climbed down her screen, and frightened Miss Poet away.
Little Miss Poet,...
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Categories:
swatter, adventure, computer, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Swatwire and plastic
so fantastic
probably the first real
weapon we'll use
wire attached to
plastic mesh
made specifically
for flying pest
yet rarely this rule
is abused
the fly swatter
which is...
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Categories:
swatter, bullying, dark,
Form:
Blank verse
Imaginary FriendI can see him clearly in my
head.
He's a fragmented image
against the wall.
Like a fly beneath the swatter.
His voice, I hear, makes my
skin...
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Categories:
swatter, absence
Form:
ABC
december flydecember fly buzzing by
how on earth did you survive
frozen cold outside
snow drifts waist high
how are you alive
december fly
december fly buzzing by
my naps slumber you deny
bzzz...
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Categories:
swatter, december, funny, repetition, sleep, winter, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Children of LahoreCHILDREN OF LAHORE
(Easter Sunday 2016)
Arms flailing
From
Her
Blue burka,
The woman
Jumps
Like a checkerboard
Piece
Up and over
The white squares
Of bedsheet
To bedsheet
To bedsheet
Each
Draped
Over a
Red...
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Categories:
swatter, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
I'm Just MeSome say I'm arrogant, the rest say I'm cocky,
But the funniest thing is that no one said it right to me,
They talk behind my back...
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Categories:
swatter, introspection, uplifting, visionary, me, me, ,
Form:
Ode
Note to a FriendToday I found you worm
Diabolic
In an old book's page
Vitriolic
In mnemonic rage
I squirmed frantic
For my chewed up words.
I thought I was breeding butterflies
Not a strange infestation.
Soft...
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Categories:
swatter, satire, social,
Form:
Free verse
Wearing Bug Spray in the WinterThey say there is no cure for the common cold or the flu. How do they know? I have just gotten over lying in bed...
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Categories:
swatter, feelings, humorous,
Form:
Prose
Shoo FlyThis 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,...
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Categories:
swatter, animals, life,
Form:
Dodoitsu
I, SAID THE FLY
I said the fly, "Have the need to pry,
my best point of view is your ceiling.
There I can spot any swats your concealing.
Us flies still...
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Categories:
swatter, nonsense,
Form:
Personification
Freddy the FlyDapper Freddy,
the house fly
and this is a fly
not prone to lie
he does buzz around
at breakneck speed
he wears his crown
a fly-king, indeed
a cinch for him
to...
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Categories:
swatter, adventure, funny, imagination, nature, insect,
Form:
Ballad
Death Of A FlyThere is a fly in the house
It can buzz and shout
Flies so fast can't swat its' antennas
Buzz around my freshly made coffee
Buzz buzz fast as...
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Categories:
swatter, death, funny, life, nature
Form:
Rhyme
title to come laterWho am I?
Oh where to begin,
I am never before,
And I am never again.
don't like to cause waves
But a hurricane I'll brew,
If thats what it takes,
To...
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Categories:
swatter, art, family, father, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, growing
Form:
Rhyme
Little FlyLittle fly
Buzzing from nose to bread
Do not try
To let my amusement shed
Attention
From blotter to the swatter
I'm too refined for such matter
The tension
Has no ice to...
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Categories:
swatter, animals,
Form:
Rhyme
Holy Diluted Cold Waterholy diluted cold water
did you see that there
its, little grandma mini
streaking, in her Sunday's best
tighty-whitie underwear
come on now
lets catch her quick
before,...
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Categories:
swatter, black african american, caregiving, culture, family,
Form:
I do not know?
What Annoys MeComes the first day of spring
and everything is in bloom,
while the bugs start
invading way too soon,
And while living down south
were always making hand motions,
to ward...
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Categories:
swatter, angst, flying, insect,
Form:
Light Verse
How odd are ottersAre otters so odd?
In Old English
Their name means 'water'
And it really ought to
As they live near the river or...
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Categories:
swatter, animal, cat, dog, voice, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Ending PestMosquito die
and the fly too
splat by swatter...
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Categories:
swatter, death, insect,
Form:
Than-Bauk
On the Death of a FlyOn the Death of a Fly
By Elton Camp
Upon learning about a murder most foul
PETA immediately put up quite a howl
“Whoever this innocent fly chose to...
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Categories:
swatter, funny, murder,
Form:
Rhyme
A Short LifeAround and around
buzzing
churrng in the sky
Darting here, there
eluding hands, eyes
fluttering
going everywhere
Hovering as a cloud
invited nowhere
Just an insect
killing time
looking for an arm
Meals for...
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Categories:
swatter, adventure
Form:
ABC