Great 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....
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Categories:
houseflies, baseball, insect, silly,
Form: Rhyme
fly 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Categories:
houseflies, love,
Form: Haiku
I 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...
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Categories:
houseflies, appreciation,
Form: List
Thousand 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...
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Categories:
houseflies, heart, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
House 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...
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Categories:
houseflies, flower, garden, humor, imagery,
Form: Personification
Flies
...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...
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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 ...
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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....
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Categories:
houseflies, husband, wife,
Form: Free verse
A 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...
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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...
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Categories:
houseflies, feelings, poems,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Sign of Winter
...Houseflies are dying...
A sign from Mother Nature.
She'll bring Winter soon....
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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...
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Categories:
houseflies, farewell, strength, violence,
Form: Free verse
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