Best Swatter Poems

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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Written: 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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Harassing 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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To prove we haven’t given up,
We order things online
Since objects meant for future use
Imply that we are fine.

A sweet dessert, a case of beer
Or scotch...

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Eye knew it

The dirty fly has compound eyes 
It sees in all directions
A swatter swats it anyway
So much for eye protection

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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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The Irritating Fly

      The irritating fly zoomed round the room
      Not stopping anywhere as I...

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wire 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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CHILDREN 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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Little 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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I 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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december 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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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,...

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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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holy 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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