Short Horsefly Poems

Black buzzing wasp landed on my shoulder
I moved amazingly fast
Masquerading horsefly...

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One of the problems
With Nature's great plan,
Is that a horse can't fly,
But a horsefly can....

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Horsefly bites galore.
    Covered in weals with red spots,
    All under my skin.
    Scratching the itch was no cure,
    Nor was head-butting the door.

    9 / 6 / 2021....

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    My pet horsefly is so darn finicky
    Dings every male in the vicinity  
       Only goes for rock stars
       Who play a mean guitar
    She will not accept a facsimile
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I saw a horsefly when I was young
I saw a man that was being transparent
I saw my brother take a trip on a lark
When acrophobia to him was inherent 

At the top of the stairs a clock ran down
I  once saw a trash truck fly up the road
Someone told me that time was running out
But it's still hard to believe a cock crowed!...

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rrrrr rrrrr 
Buzzing fly
Big one
Horse fly
Annoying me

I will snap it with my notebook
If I get the chance.
It lands on my hand.
I am not in the mood for this today.
rrrr rrrr

Now there are two of them
tormenting me
I am not in the mood
I miss them both
Several times
They buzz around me a bit more.
Just to show me who owns these woods....

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I am not so sure Buddy is not a pony
His hair is coarse and straight
His tail looks exactly like a pony’s
but he has the face of a dog.

A horsefly makes him act crazy
Maybe he is a pony
That died and reincarnated too quickly?
He never shakes his head up and down 
like a pony though

He shakes his head side to side
as if to say “no” 
like our daughters always did 
He belongs to us all right....

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Husk of a Horsefly


It's the last day of September
as I carefully toe 
the husk
of a horsefly
out of my office
onto bright tiles
Stella will buff
to a sheen
while I am at home
surveying my supper.
But now I have time
to sit at my desk
till it's time for my train.
I can lean back in my chair
and listen to the day
drone near the ceiling.
Soon it will
helicopter down
like a horsefly,
touch ground
and taxi awhile
before braking.


Donal Mahoney...

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