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Locust Poems - Poems about Locust

The Locust and the Tree

I wish I could tell you
And have you understand
That you are you,
And I am me.
We put so many years between us
And in all that time you’ve changed nothing
While I’ve had to change everything about me. 
Just please understand 
That I am a locust
And you are a tree.
I laid dormant for years 
By your side, if

Categories: locust, analogy, best friend, change,
Form: Free verse

Odyssey of a Locust

    bulbous eyes
    bulging chest
    perched on my screen
      the ugliest thing
      I’d ever seen  

    beat its wings abruptly
    buzzing robustly
      flew away

Categories: locust, flying, insect, journey,
Form: Rhyme

Locust biblical

Stripping everything green from the earth-
 full of destruction

Categories: locust, animal,
Form: Monoku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Like locust

I’ve heard tale; Doc, told Wyatt he was an oak,
much the common; desires of common folk.
Fur, me and mine, such lies; out of focus.
May your purpose stand like ours; like locust!

Categories: locust, america, art, beautiful, books,
Form: Quintain (English)

Roach Or Locust

Whatever it is it likes to exercise on its back said Mr. Will.
We both stared at the creature whose wings were lying still.
The creature’s legs were going back and forth in triple time.
A giant roach or a locust, whatever it is, it is scary said a mime.

We watched the bug roll over and do some

Categories: locust, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Microlight

Microlight


When they appeared, we were like, “What …the?” motorcycles
dangling from multi-coloured wings, animated comic book scene
blond wisps racing at leisure in deliberate mid-morning breeze
rainbow spectrum gone haywire, in the azure June sky
they were flaunting metallics, Kariba breams in fish eagle talons.

They hovered above, the whole school was set in a frenzy
nerds set books aside, watched

Categories: locust, africa, change, culture, grandmother,
Form: Free verse

Senryu On Locust

Saved my butternuts -
Day 2 for locust was last
As a boy I "loved" them!

Categories: locust, 12th grade, animal, creation,
Form: Senryu

El Divino Ii

JOEL

 I go through you
weaving 
strings of finely minced clippings

But, on the green Elysian 
I will devour you
I will show you mortal wings
cunning lips as sweet as money.

Through the eye of the needle,
trough the open lids of desire,
I will thread you poems of harvest.

Categories: locust, endurance, environment, flower, fruit,
Form: Free verse

Locust

An eating machine
Salted nuts and salted fries
No beverage needed

Categories: locust, depression, desire, feelings, food,
Form: Haiku

Procrast Locust

Given, that she spoke with a six pound tongue;
My bath rinsed phlegm down sticky the sticky drain.
They use their paws to grasp and noses to smell;
In no order am I aware of which noise interrupted first,
Yet, through sliding doors I watch possum and cat, melodramatic, insist on banquets.
Rancid, putrid and sweet wet lies...Oh! the taste

Categories: locust, angst,
Form: Free verse

Black Locust

Distance cleaves us
Though we drink of the smiles
Bubbling from the corners of our lips

The colours of courtship begin to swivel
Locust echoes bloom ever so fearlessly
As fair passion sweeps through the fog

Categories: locust, love, romance,
Form: Verse

Mourning Over the Locust Plaque

Some sounds like the noise of bees
Hovering around the atmosphere
Or like rain drops on our roof tops,
I opened my round window
The window of my hut,
I wanted to know
Why my sleep won't mellow,
All i saw was sorrow
As the atmosphere turned green.
The cassava farm was over shadowed
Banana plantation feebled,
Apple orchard struggled
Yet their efforts stifled,
Lemon grass for mama's

Categories: locust, confusion, depression, mystery, natural
Form: Narrative

The Locust Tree

Alone
in ancient
plantation and forest-
a false accacia the best
survives

Categories: locust, nature,
Form: Cinqku