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Deet Poems - Poems about Deet


Premium Member The Sting of Spring
...I sulk in solace by the ember’s glow of warming hearths that temper to the bone then wait in earnest ‘til the thaw of snow and all the piercing winter winds have blown. I wait the breeze that ......

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Categories: deet, angst, funny, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Homegrown Blackberries Rule
...Recalling how chiggers can itch I'll still cross the muddiest ditch the biggest blackberries to find. Deet sends most critters to their niche. Wrestling briers, a path I'll stake while dreamin......

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Categories: deet, 11th grade, angst, boyfriend,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member A Red, Itchy Victim Speaks
...A flock of large birds or a fleet of small small planes is speeding towards me. NO! It's worse--mosquitoes! I failed to use repellent! I grab my swatter. They slap it away, laughing--......

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Categories: deet, insect, summer,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member I Pray There Is a Hell Fire
...ove them; When in fact “the wild” appears too near. In america it’s not bugs or fish or alligators That be our predators, it’s the white hunters, I am afraid they prey on human prey. They wear blue uniform or white sheets, And we can’t spray them with "DEET"… They don’t kill to eat; but out of hate They have been known to feed our Babies to the gators…and the other day One white lady coughed deliberately in a Spanish Babies face, what a disg......

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Categories: deet, adventure, america, analogy, anger,
Form: Prose Poetry
The State Bird of Alaska
...Have you heard that the state bird of Alaska is the mosquito which is the nasty insect that flies around, looking for a victim to be found. Its blood-thirsty bite is similar to a miniature ......

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Categories: deet, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Everyday American Irritations
...GROGGY BEDHEAD NO COFFEE SHUT THE BLINDS .... PRESIDENTIAL NO GOOD CHOICES TELIVISION SIGNAL GLITCH SMEAR ART CAMPAIGN... LATE NIGHT REHEATED RERUN RETWEEKED RETWEETED MORNING NEWS?.... MORE RAIN TO......

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Categories: deet, america, anxiety, celebrity, conflict,
Form: Blitz
My Pestering Chatterers
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tonight....10:30 PM.... I can't think straight...ahhhh! My heart is thumping with love-coated hate! Ahhhh... The chirping pests get louder and......

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Categories: deet, angst, me, nostalgia, pets,
Form: Free verse
Serenading Tonic
...Pitter patter of voyeuristic neighbors on retreat An obsurd rapper missing a beat A noisy fan having his posterior put on his seat The last gasp of a coffee pot removed from the heat A pesky pan ......

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Categories: deet, satire
Form: Rhyme

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