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The Condition
...A Doctor talks about my condition as if reading a textbook in his head. He even pauses like he is turning a page. There is a large black fly that keeps bouncing off the clinics window. I 'm ......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
black fly,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Pigs
...A humid day, mosquito clouds swarm along a red dirt road to the farm. There are grimy rows of pig pens, hazed dark by humming hordes of black fly. Bob (an old friend), chuckles. “Man, you pi......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
black fly,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Blackfly Blacksheep Burn
...There’s an aching in my heart Just in a little bit now Ill be ok The black sheep constant game Arrives and sails his sympathy in absent muse They don’t see they are killing themselves The shee......
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Greg Slode Smith
Categories:
black fly,
blue, muse, natural disasters,
Form:
Free verse
The Buz
...In the low pasture cowbirds are picking over humming cow pats. In the high sheepfold lambs are dropping small round blueberries that are really not blueberries and the whirring beetles know it......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
black fly,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Unscheduled Flight
...A black fly in midwinter has burgled the warm air of the kitchen. It struggles for height, a brittle-winged air-bender reaching for plateaus, higher footstools, grasping for spice shelves or......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
black fly,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Loving Jose
...Yes, Jose, this is another love letter from anthroprivileged me to LeftBrain dominant you for multicultural us. I'm still here sinking into my deep blue camp chair with feet resting on a wea......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
black fly,
depression, happiness, health, lonely,
Form:
Narrative
Venus Fly Trap
...Carnivorous blooms hothouse fed, thick tonged in lolling herds. Feeding time is all day. The flies are introduced in humming shifts. By evening the electric buzz is dimmed, the curvaceou......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
black fly,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Flecks
...Repressed, sombre colours weep a blurry sadness. Melancholic, metallic hues bite a frustrated, untouched lip - silently surrendering crimson, golden spheres of promise… They dissolve, shrinking......
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Emma Wells
Categories:
black fly,
appreciation, beautiful, black love,
Form:
Blank verse
Mean Jean
...Some folks just don't have a life of their own. Some live on other's problems. Some live on other's dreams, and hopes for the future. Some live on just being the antagonist to everyone else; They......
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Lonna Blodgett
Categories:
black fly,
angst, conflict, feelings, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Fpp
...Furious purple pen Seeking sassy strawberries A black fly in the coffee The pen waits and waits In case a gale grows and gathers Sticks to shake the branches Fervent pink pomegranate Offer......
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Probir Gupta
Categories:
black fly,
art, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Trapped Fly
...I see a bottle on a green Royal marble mantelpiece Behind a sheer screen Dividing the abyss Of hidden knowledge With a little black fly Trapped forever inside She flies around in wide Circ......
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Ruta Skendeliene
Categories:
black fly,
allusion, dark, destiny, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Deliverance
...O'er fields strewn with harvested evergreens, There ventured a marine from Queens, His flesh were a slight inky, his clothing was ragged, No more alive, flowing in dread and haggard. All aroun......
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Charles Bernabi
Categories:
black fly,
dark, life, , memorial,
Form:
Rhyme
Secret Wedding At Christmas
...Dry leaves carpeted the floor, 'Any objection to the joining of these two?' No answer,only the snake hisses and the bee buzzes, Holy matrimony far from family members and friends, in the thick fo......
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Olusegun Arowolo
Categories:
black fly,
love, romance, , western,
Form:
Epithalamium
39
...A hungry black fly Looks around the small white weed With two big red eyes......
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Xolani Idris
Categories:
black fly,
nature,
Form:
Haiku
The Inivisible Hand
...The invisible hand that rocks the cradle Also rocks the grave The invisible hand of Smith’s fable From a poor hand many gave Sow the seed of greed Young indeed For this is no ordinary cow fee......
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Andrew Plath
Categories:
black fly,
death, life, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
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