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Best Termite Poems

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Premium Member Termite
Hollow log resonates
ancient cultural undertow
termites work incessantly....

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termite, beauty, destiny, nature,
Form: Haiku



She Possesses Me
She possesses me like a fire possesses the devil
She possesses me like a Harley possesses its metal
She lures me like a child is lured to...

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© Rob Carter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termite, imagination, lust, psychological,
Form: Lyric
Hillbilly 7 Wonders
The 7 wonders of the world 
Is quite a sight to see
But it don't compare to what we have
In the hills of Tennessee

Uncle Zebs cow...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termite, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trump's Little 'Read' Book
The book of Trump is little read for minions are just fools,
As dropouts in the school of life, they don't have any tools
That rise above...

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Categories: termite, love, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walkabout
In shot snap seconds, everything changed.
The horror was sudden -
a shatter-shower of bullets
bouncing off rock.
The picnic I'd laid so carefully
blew apart - black olives
tossed into...

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Categories: termite, journey, places, surreal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Train
Oh no! Train again!

Perched upon parallels of steel,
You roll your way on heavy wheels.
Thundering through town
With a rhythmic rattle and clickity-clack.
Your deep throat rumbles diesel...

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Categories: termite, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spectacular- For Contest
Stock-still in gold dawn light while many sleep,
perched, scanning, on abandoned termite heap.
Expectant, skin tingles as in cold breeze
contrasting with the stillness of the trees.
The...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termite, animal,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Souper Star
Where can I go.
Following me like the black plague,
Droppings here and there for show.
----let them lie where they fall
after all
who is the big cheese
who is...

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Categories: termite, slam,
Form: Free verse
African Warrior
His skin is coated in red ocher,  
making it hard for his enemies  
to notice him midst termite mounds.  

He wears a...

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Categories: termite, adventure, africa, animal, culture,
Form: Narrative
Land of the Free
Oh, Land of the Free 
You have presumptuously deemed yourself the mouthpiece and policy maker 
Of the world
How overconfident
How impudent
Who makes you... 
  ...

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Categories: termite, allegory, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Elegy
Animal Antics
One ticket admission to my home  z o o!
SO many creatures, don’t know what to do-
a turtle and a bunny,
a stinky pug so funny,
a...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: termite, animal, pets, silly,
Form: Limerick
Halloween Night In the Apple Orchard
Young Timmy saw Jim walking down the street.  Timmy considered a quick retreat, but steadied himself with a shrug.  Timmy dreaded the sight...

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Categories: termite, children, fear, scary,
Form: Narrative
In Praise of Termites
The termite culture's rich and vast, 
more so, sometimes, than humankind, 
with martyrs and mujahideen, 
and projects ponderous yet precise, 
and back-up plans, a hundredfold....

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Categories: termite, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Let There Be Light
Ignite your heart and let there be light
When darkness of lust ushers love and peace take flight
The claws of wars and strife maul the face...

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Categories: termite, peace, people, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
My Exotic Pet
Finally retiring down to sunny Tampa,
and moving into an old house,
noticed there was a bad termite problem
which I had to trouble shoot somehow,
my neighbor being...

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Categories: termite, humor, pets,
Form: Light Verse

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