Pesticide Poems

Premium MemberOne dumb mistake

...Marijuana from a farm in Oklahoma
Chemicals added that could put you in a coma
Grown by a Chinese Mafia, on American land
They don't care if you die by their hand.

Marijuana from a Siskiyou Cou...
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Categories: pesticide, character, corruption, death, evil,
Form: Lyric

Gafas

...lows over my eyes 
trying kill what's inside 
just a different drive 
hi jacked the vibe 
trying to bug my line 
get sprayed with pesticide

you see them thuggin
I'm with the plug 
trippin o...
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Categories: pesticide, addiction, car, drug, friendship,
Form: Verse


Josh Moore North Dakota II

...TV news broadcasts the motel dark,
she lies flat, belly soft with rabbit tattoos,
ash smudged into the sheets.

My boots drip clay and pesticide,
fingers stained from counting nickels.

Outsid...
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Categories: pesticide, addiction, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Easter Bunny

...He is more mischievous than you’d think.
He pretended to be a plumber and broke my sink.
He spread pesticide on my flowers. 
He chewed my shoe laces in the past hours. 
The Easter Bunny is a disg...
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Categories: pesticide, easter,
Form: Rhyme

A Flower Vase on Top of a Piano

...My neighbor's piano swirls around her finger
likened to a keyed car where scrapes linger.

She teases out a tune as we both try to hum
along with swirling keys her fingers drum.

The naturals a...
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Categories: pesticide, insect, music,
Form: Rhyme


Robert Lost

...Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
Tried to follow Frost’s journey as far as I could.

Nah, f*** this, walking is terrible.
I stray off the paths
searching for something,
a little more bearabl...
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Categories: pesticide, conflict, dark, depression, dream,
Form: Free verse

Symphony of the Sunrise

...In a world where hate reigns in whirling waves, as winter wreaths form chilling chains. 
I seek refuge from weeping war strains; my one desire to vacate the poverty lane. 
These gliding lights we g...
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Categories: pesticide, art, bereavement, character, deep,
Form: Free verse

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...Robins seem to enjoy my yard
Awaiting the coolness of dewed mornings
To awaken the wriggling worms
A seasonal offering favored by the feathered ones

Dandelion waiters tend to the color and flav...
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Categories: pesticide, garden, nature,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberStop, Stop The Division

...Army versus Navy
Navy versus Army
Army versus Army
Navy versus Navy
Stop, stop the division
Stop the separation
Stop the genocide
The bombs, the pesticide
And the bullets are killing
Women, ...
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Categories: pesticide, betrayal, conflict, cry, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme

Through the Cracks

...12/15/22

Among a society
Obsessed with notoriety
I get occasional anxiety
Can't always find privacy
Still a battle with sobriety

A drawn out process or soon to pass
Continual polluted gas
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Categories: pesticide, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn the Year 2023 I Shall

...In the Year 2023
I shall:

Breathe in – Breathe out
Slurp the soup
Eat the fried chicken with my fingers
Lick my fingers
Pet passing dogs
Write my name in the snow
Make snow “devils”
Throw ...
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Categories: pesticide, humor, life,
Form: List

Someone Call Poison Control

...i want to go back to a time where i felt pretty
a time where i felt
something.
where slam poetry about brittle bones and bottles spoke to me
where sharp pieces of metal and sexy, seducing, sad so...
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Categories: pesticide, addiction, angst, beauty, body,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIt Seems To Be Snowing

...It seems to be snowing but it’s aphids.
They look like cotton or dandelion fluff.
You wouldn’t want them on your lashes.
They cling to grass, screens & other stuff.

You wouldn’t think aphids ar...
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Categories: pesticide, insect,
Form: Rhyme

Circa Summer 2021 When Stella Luna Cast Silhouettes Across Bella Luna

...Yours truly jogs his memory to write
about witnessing bats appearing at twilight
swooping mammals (in search of prey) quite
silently whooshing thru the dusky night
flitting to and fro, hither and...
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Categories: pesticide, 12th grade, absence, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFrom Your Little Honey Bee

...Be nice to me. I’m just a little bee
that works so hard to see my hive succeed.
Why does it seem like you’re afraid of me?
I only want to fly around and feed
on pollen and sweet nectar. That’s my...
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Categories: pesticide, insect,
Form: Sonnet

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