you reach with clinging desires
and drunken temptations
brightly flourished promises
wrapped 'round petite
virgin white pleasures
yet trust hesitates around
too much beauty
hidden midst other scents
emotional flytraps while
Venus blushes
knowing if she waits
her hugs will be too painful
to escape
Categories:
flytraps, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Unthinkable odds descriptive recounts,
The Venus Flytrap, U.S.A, amounts.
Unique to Carolina's, north and south,
triggers sensory hairs in its hinged mouth.
Small insect or arachnid alerts trap,
then leafy draws down close up tight till snap.
Carnivorous plants like soft and sober
subtropical wetlands southeast seaboard.
The Venus Flytrap is the most active
of such species. Sweet nectar's retractive
luring potential prey into its clout
closed-door policy, check-in don't check out.
Some Venus Flytraps make place most hostile
bug-free surroundings are most possible.
Categories:
flytraps, allusion, analogy, green, growth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
nature's carnivores
sometimes let their prey find them-
like venus flytraps.
Sandra M. Haight
~3rd Place~
Contest: Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku
Sponsor: Dear Heart
Judged: 05/26/2019
Categories:
flytraps, nature,
Form: Haiku
"CONSIDER ME"
as the one who knows
as the one who cried for death
when the whores of my past
destroyed their kids and the
families around them.
through the tears and anger
of my insanity, the coin has
always been marked with
the same side.
consider me the one who laughed
when the ones wearing two faces
got theirs repeatedly.
inside the kitchens that have
been destroyed, inside the living
rooms where betrayal danced,
inside the mouths of filth lie
every ounce of reason to continue
the awareness of my surroundings.
consider me, even after I am dead,
as the one who went through it
all so you wouldn’t have to.
of course, there are many that
have a story to tell but ask a
hundred maniacs and you’ll never
find mine.
the breasts sit in my hands,
the flytraps change every bit of
reality for the average man.
consider me, Chicano Eddie,
the one who got it all down on
paper instead of jumping off a
bridge.
By: Chicano Eddie
6152017
Categories:
flytraps, addiction, analogy, appreciation, mentor,
Form: Free verse
Zoological mental state.
Yesterday's news brings trouble to today's date.
Xylophones ringing playing tunes of my sorrow.
Willing to give it all for a moment I can borrow.
Venus Flytraps eating away at my soul.
United we once were, I was whole.
Tragedy promoted our separation.
Scenes of lucidity remain of our immense devastation.
Responsive to avail.
Quietly singing to your lost soul as my eyes swell.
Picking away at cotton from this worn out sweater.
Oscillating thoughts, the pain is far from better.
No sunshine to illuminate the present.
Malice lingering in my heart is a vicious weapon.
Like a grenade awaiting explosion.
Kin on the branches of my family tree have ceased motion.
Juxtaposed to bitter benefits.
Impossible for a valued object to ignite any sentiment.
Head spinning like a whirlwind.
Grenadine mixed with tequila doesn't slow the spin.
Fishing for hope in a pool of disparity.
Enduring the loss of a creature of such rarity.
Descending to a place where the sun has no feasible presence.
Crippled by the memory of your warm essence.
Baffled by the mystery of life's lessons.
A life without you is one of constant regressions.
Categories:
flytraps, death,
Form: ABC
Eyeballing you as a
sticky bun; pondering how
to reach out without
getting stuck.
"Perhaps it’s the flare of the
Season, or more primal
reasons, but I find
obsession in the chase, if you
don’t mind the pursuing."
Your lashes flutter in
exasperation, twin Venus
Flytraps stretching before
consuming,
those pinholes inside lick the
air around me, scanning
risk and prospect within such
veiled intent.
"Are your legs prepared for the
pumping, is your ardor
thumping to torch my
feverous mortal thrill, or shall
doubt guide your undoing?"
I load my quiver without
malice, aware splendor is
never afraid of
vast effort.
Categories:
flytraps, funny, love
Form: Free verse