Drosophila Poems


Premium MemberMetamorphosis

Delusion to illumination


Drosophila melanogaster 
Trapped in water bottle prepared by cutting off the top ¼ 
Turn it upside down into the bottom ¾ of bottle 
After adding some ripe bananas, add a little water 
Sit them around the house in some nice comfort zones 
Watch a drosophila melanogaster go in, then be trapped 
Can’t figure how to get out, well, there is food and water 
Then another drosophila flies downward now two trapped
Companionship!! Yeah!! 
Sex happens, food, and water, but still trapped
Eggs laid, soon many maggots crawl 
How like human conditions sometimes the situation looks like a good deal 
Trapped 
Nothing takes the place of freedom 
Freedom!! Freedom!! 
That trait God placed within all of us 
Freedom!! Freedom!!  
What do we do with what we are given? 
Well, that is entirely up to you
Categories: drosophila, abuse, addiction, betrayal, faith,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFruit Flies Of Spring And Summer

This morning I killed six drosophila melanogaster, just saying.




So thankful another one did not fly up my nose.
Categories: drosophila, flying,
Form: Monoku


Premium MemberSome Insects Are a Nuisance

Fruit flies abuzz everywhere
Some fly here and some land plop
Doesn't matter if it is on fruit or poop.
Then they have the nerve to land in my stew
I think they have the right to life, but then.
They'd have sex and hatch oodles.
Two thousand more at a time
Even though I try not to keep score, see.
Swarms of them are too many to please me.
Drosophila melanogaster, go.
Setting some traps with fruit bait
They enter can't leave, trapped, stay.
Guess what, they have sex, and she lays her eggs.
In a short time, maggots start their ascent. 
Well, throw them out, those pesky nuisances.
I thought I had them conquered.
I assumed the house was free.  
Then to my surprise, one zoomed in my ear.
I was furious, angry as could be.
Up my nose one flew, to my amazement.
I blew and blew, used some spray.
I can hear him buzz today.
Categories: drosophila, insect,
Form: Verse
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