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Bugging Out

Bugging Out

Alone, watching the logs burn—

sizzling, like my heart after your words.

Betrayal hangs, breath lingering and swaying.


My eyes crackle with the fire and the brokenness.


Where does your emphasis come from—

to berate, humiliate,

to call me lower than a bug,

invisible as the squashing.

Sloth-like, I move toward the shower,

turning the water on with practiced grace,

trying to drown out

Categories: bugging, analogy, anxiety, betrayal, integrity,
Form: Free verse

Whats Bugging One

Past choices one has made, Couldn’t it been the opposite instead or was one simply following one’s heart and not using one’s head? Former relationships, jobs, finances Whats bugging one? Other’s people’s behaviour's or one’s behaviour's irritating one another . What’s really bugging one? Goals to set, deadlines to be accommodated, authority figures bugging one

Categories: bugging, confidence, creation, encouraging, fate,
Form: Bio

What's Bugging You - Hlm

*Image of Ladybugs by Pixabay.

What's Bugging You

a ladybug lands
another land in the midst
a breathtaking view

hey there hey there ladybug 
come right here and let us hug 
it's nice to hold
you're very bold
but I'm a lonely spark plug.

if you can't believe your own eyes then close them~~and use your other eye

2022 January 29
*2nd Place*
Charlie Hai-Lim-Ku
~~Charles Messina:

Categories: bugging, allusion, image, insect,
Form: Monoku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Stop Bugging Me

ouch! ouch! ouch!
pesky wasps
mosquito’s
and bugs
have eaten me alive

scratch scratch
itch itch
I'll treat my skin
with soothing lotion
then seek revenge!

my electric
fly swatter
zaps them
soon they’re doing
the dying fly!

17 syllables per stanza, checked with ps soup counter

A Buggy Tanka Contest Poetry Contest


Sponsored by ML Kiser

09/01/21

Categories: bugging, garden, insect, pain,
Form: Tanka

Bugging Contraption Wbm

This man was a sleuth by profession,
for belated honeymoon session
reached on moonless night eerie
lodge in mist of mystery,
searched the room for bugging contraption.


July 31, 2019
Syllable count 9/9/7/7/9
Checked on howmanysyllables.com

Categories: bugging, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Bugging Gray Hair

Labeled as natural aging design
Popularly the so-called wisdom sign
Gray hair surprise-appearance
Bugs me with sweet endurance
Age-wise, to such fact, my mind can’t resign.

Peeping like silver strand jewelry
Defying my youthful look’s victory
Gray hair announces with pride
My blest maturity-stride…
I welcome with beauteous dyeing’s glory*.

*Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in

Categories: bugging, beautiful, beauty, blessing, character,
Form: Limerick

Quit Bugging Me

grabbed my dixie cup 
buzzing my cabins window ..
a horse fly

Categories: bugging, candy, fantasy, kids, funny,
Form: Haiku

Something's Bugging Me

Looking at a tiny ant, I thought,
"Shall I kill thee or shall I not?"

When a mosquito my hand did bite,
I hit out at it in spirited spite,

Then from the corner of my eye,
I saw a cockroach saying 'Hi',

Exasperated, I threw up my hands,
Only to find a lizard in the stands,

As I shook my head in

Categories: bugging, fun, insect,
Form: Rhyme