Get Your Premium Membership

Houseflies Poems - Poems about Houseflies

Premium MemberGreat Swing

...I swung a magazine in a speeding blaze,
and killed five houseflies in three days.
My statistics are good, and for my money,
I'm better than Shohei Ohtunny....
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, baseball, insect, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberfly away

...Three fireflies arrested on suspicion of arson

Two horseflies galloped of into the sunset

A butterfly landed lightly on the toast

The houseflies awaited the delivery from Door Dash

The dr...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, flying, fun, word play,
Form: Monoku



This Risen Churlish Cold

...This risen churlish cold
all cove like
lost in the rigging
crying out the humour
to dance the green lithe of light
as a figment of your mind
The inconsolables retain
lost memories flight
Wint...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, analogy, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

No Throwing Stones

...NO THROWING OF STONES:

This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 

Chorus: 
Ain' t throw stones when you self a fouler, 
Words you say could later come haunting you, 
So think twice Mr. Traitor. 
Tha...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, appreciation, change,
Form: Lyric

Fulani's Philosophy

...Haiku I mean
because
life is a mystery

sky is clear
and serene

one draw

these grasshoppers-
I want to pass
I want to smile

may be love
is hand to mouth
or may be we eat
to live
o...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, love,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberI Love You

...My circle is of
    fruitflies, houseflies, mosquitos
    squirrels, chipmunks, possums
    spiders, crickets, ants
    parakeets, seagulls, geese

This dance is absent without you
    hair, g...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, appreciation,
Form: List

Premium MemberThousand Touches

...Tick-tock of a clock lasts a fraction of moment,
Yet, makes me cognizant of the moments potent;
The dewdrop that glistens from the tip of a leaf,
Though its life is a second or minute so brief...
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, heart, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHouse Plants In the Nursery

..."House plants are such attention seekers!" -- quote by Poet



House plants in the nursery are all trying 
to sell themselves; competing for attention; 
pleading to be bought to Mrs. Greenthumb...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, flower, garden, humor, imagery,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberFlies

...summer's plentiful
houseflies eat cat food, dog poop....
slurp coffee, cough, spit  


These past three summers have been awful for houseflies and blowflies coming insi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, nature,
Form: Haiku

Open Defecation

...I bow my head down in compunctions and in shame
For a contributory factor I had been to that which I blame
Oh Yes indeed I take no pride in that and my blame I will claim

But, to why I had done ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, children, dedication, education, environment,
Form: Acrostic

Houseflies

...Husband killed eight houseflies, 
four males and four females he said.
How come you knew!? His wife asked
Males  were on sugar females on the mirror
That was his simple reply....
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, husband, wife,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Modern Love Story

...In scratchy swales emitting Clorox gas,
Matador houseflies cross paralyzed eyes;
A kaleidoscope scene where jagged glass
Cracks beneath footsteps of love’s promised lies;

Forgotten by choice th...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, loneliness, lost,
Form: Sonnet

Wishes

...POET-ANJALI DENANDI,MOM
 WISHES
…………………………………….
i wish  ,  i fly ...................
but  i  have  no  wings  !
why  , have  not  ?  why  ?
from  where , i  can  bring  ?
who  can  say ?
i  a...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, feelings, poems,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberA Sign of Winter

...Houseflies are dying...
A sign from Mother Nature.
She'll bring Winter soon....
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, autumn, insect, nature, november,
Form: Haiku

Feast of Chaos

...The undertaker prepped him voguishly
Like there was a party six feet below
The earth where anosmic maggots
Were tamed by steep fragrance

He is dead, he is dead
Of what use is a tinseling treas...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: houseflies, farewell, strength, violence,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things