Best Termite Poems

Hollow log resonates
ancient cultural undertow
termites work incessantly....

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Where am I? Where has my vision taken?
Away amidst the turbulent seas with safety of shore forsaken

Neither the days of grandeur remain, nor the blissful drunken nights
Dismal is my life, alas! All eaten  by time’s termites

When this sea of tears will dry up and...

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(Dedicated to all booklovers who have lost their loved ones to the scourge of the termite hordes - I did)

I thought I was a bibliophile
and indulged in pedantic boasts
I'd speak of ancient tomes and stuff
revel in Academia's toasts

horror of horrors I discovered
a lover of books...

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Written by Gail DeBole on May 9, 2017
Updated on October 6, 2022

Max the chimp was in awe of his find.
A termite meal that boggled his mind.
Thousands trapped in the hill
He took care not to spill
And did not leave one termite behind.

This time there were extra...

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Termite/Whiteant fix

Out in west Queensland,
Lived  a white ant pestered man,
Cos the white ants were attacking ,
Chomping on his house quite grand.
They seemed to love the skirting boards,
And would climb to get in em,
There in millions billions bloody hordes,
What would he do with dem?
He was...

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Why at war I have no clue
all I do is eat and chew

Don’t kill your flocks
like a carnivore fox

Or mow your crop
with a locusts chop

Of wood I take a tiny bite
for that you engage me to fight?


First Place Winner: A Brian Strand Couplet Contest 7/28/21...

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when all have well known 
you've entered my marrow ---
why insecticide?


26 May 2022...

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I watched the peaceful cattle stroll
around the pleasant field.
We gain from them both food and milk, 
such benefits they yield.

However, when they eat the grass, 
they digest all that stuff.
The gas produced from peaceful cows,
makes air a little rough.

But what about that lowly bug, 
with...

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TERMITE PROPHECY


the cloudburst of wings

a buffet for dragonflies

determinant fare



5/26/2018
Magicicada Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy...

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location location location
in a compromising position
trying to eat you out
of house and home...

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Oh,my dear tech termite,                                         ...

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