Most the things that mostly crawl
Mostly cost the most of all
Like crabs and snails and lobster claw
Pray the day that prices fall
Categories:
crawlers, fish, food,
Form: Rhyme
After the rain I started to smell them
They have a distinct odor, not a fragrance
I had to walk carefully, as to not squash them
They were squirming on the sidewalk and in the grass
Night crawlers, giving me nightmares some nights
Categories:
crawlers, rain,
Form: Free verse
Summertime involves barbeques and picnics,
baseball games, swimming, and dogs fetching sticks.
Pitching tents and sharing the ground with slugs,
centipedes, and other assorted bugs.
As twilight wanes, female mosquitoes thirst
for blood: vying for who will bite you first.
And at sunset, as evening breezes warm,
clouds of annoying gnats begin to swarm.
Ebony fields showcase flashing fireflies,
blinking in and out like sparks on the rise.
As creepy crawlers stir in the moonlight,
crickets break the silence imposed by Night.
The morning mist dribbles droplets of dew
on blades of grass that green grasshoppers chew.
And as butterflies sip nectar, first light,
dragonflies flex cellophane wings for flight.
Summertime's menagerie of insects
includes artists, farmers, and architects.
Alive, yet as beautiful as a gem:
we get to share this blue marble with them.
Categories:
crawlers, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Light stutters and slacks
slips under an ancient nightgown.
Gore and ghast rise to pin back eyes.
Plaster cast crawlers
take over the wards of dreamers.
The nurse is buried in her 'Peoples' magazine
she does not see the shadows
reaching to seal her coffin.
Tunnels arrive like mouths;
enter the breath bereft pyramid robbers,
moth-eaten eyes pined to their extinct skulls.
They want to steal your darkness
weave it into nightmares,
ride you like a seahorse in an oily turgid ocean
until you sink all your wish-bones
too deep for any hope.
Categories:
crawlers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Night Crawlers
As the bartender shouted last call
they clung to the bar lest they fall
then said “let’s continue”
“what’s next on the venue”
let go and completed the crawl.
John G. Lawless
10/12/2016
Categories:
crawlers, humor,
Form: Limerick
Existing here in the oblivion
Hollow is it's core
Others thrive in this waste
Bodies passing
No connection is made
Just shadows
Why am I here
Is this always the end result
Of Dr Jekyll an Mr Hyde played out
Is this what their life is all about
Our Essence is filled with Light
Strength beams from Our Core
Hands that are Strong
A Will that is Determined
Our Hearts are Loyal
Thy Lords Will shall Rule.... This is Our Fate....
This evil will not prevail
It does not frighten us
A spec that is so small
Pathogenic scarecrow
Just amazed that we did not see
Who the Creep Crawler turns out to be........
Categories:
crawlers, bible, judgement, psychological, truth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
CIA & the NYPD’s got a thing for hassling those who
get down on their knees to “pray” to one kind of
fiction, as opposed to another---
in Jersey,
they got a way of always being around when
Jersey muslims are trying to dwell in a specific delusion
on their own, whilst good ol’ christians get nothing of the
sort---
saying that islam = violence
without recognizing the violence that
christianity
has thwarted (and continues to thwart) upon the world,
or for that matter
any religion, whose members at one time or another
have found reason to try & convert others to their way of
thinking,
be it with the sword or the ak-47,
is both ignorant & more dangerous than the supposed
terrorists that feds are seeking in one community,
forgetting the rest.
all religion inspires insanity
all religion allows a person to think that there is something greater
than this one world in which we coexist &
that the destruction of all humanity,
if needed by said deity,
would be a small price to pay
to get whatever gold star is promised---
if you are going to hassle one group of lunatics
for practicing their lunacy,
then you need to be hassling them all.
Categories:
crawlers, life, religion, violence,
Form: Free verse