Best Torpedo Poems

Torpedo grass is a noxious weed.
To gardeners, it’s a plant they don’t need.
Widespread, it almost never grows from seed.
Some botanists say it hails from Asia.
Others claim the plant comes from Africa.
Either way, this weed made it to America.
Panicum repens is its taxonomic name.
One of the...

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that familiar refrain 
flailing arms in the night 
an itch filled torpedo
small but bitey

mozzzzzzzzzzquito!


Bite Sized Poem no50 poetry contest...

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Fuse lit now, the spark ignited:
Let it burn, this love misguided.
Our future once had seemed vivid
Now obfuscated… no: omitted.

Structural damage, shock waves follow
Breach the hull and the vessel’s hollow.
Floods, and fires. Catastrophic damage.
It wasn’t watertight. We couldn’t manage.

Here I stand, now scarred forever.
Compartmentalizing to withstand...

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The world is a mystery
As I ride through its many tribulations
I hold my head up and high
For Jesus has overcome for me

God chooses what I go through
How I go through it is my choice
No force can supersede the plan of God for me
Only I can...

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