Short Locust Poems

Inch worm inch by inch
Butterfly hue upon hue
Locust dying soon...

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An eating machine
Salted nuts and salted fries
No beverage needed...

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

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

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. . . high noon sun

           locust chomps

                 own shadow . . ....

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 What we can't do -
oaks, tulip, pine, locust trees grow
closely, but fearlessly...

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And being in the middle of the swarm all the time,
The poor locust soon forgets his own soul’s chime....

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fast flickering wings
entice calling for a mate
after 17 years locust















May 26, 2018...

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iced tea on the porch
locusts sing a lullaby
lulling me to sleep...

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If the butterfly
on the small of her back
spreads even wider,
it will become a locust.
Ink will munch skin
as if she were a leaf....

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The queen-ant 
runs
towards the 
forest
with her 
mobile feelers
and slender 
waist;
perhaps the 
drone
has got a dead 
locust
where she 
goes
to be in the 
feast....

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

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Locust swarms gorge on food chains,
hungry millions piercing cry


Date created : 13 August 2020
Two line poem.

 Contest : Podium placing promise (2)

  Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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Could See A Crocus

Finally found my picture appearing in focus;
What I appeared to be seeing was a crocus;
We took a tour;
Flower for sure
Did disappear after being eaten by a locust.

Jim Horn...

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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...

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LOCUST EATING LOCUST

"humans are nothing, but; locusts, when you really think about it"
Indiana Shaw . . . 

"Won't be long; before, we are eating ourselves" . . . : /...

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With down flying all around,
It all would seem very aster-like to an outsider.
But he was flaunting the sered spirit
To the querulous darkness screaming.
The locust melancholy lullaby
Brings the gention and goldenrod to bed.
While the sedges come to live.
Sprung from the rainfall of my life....

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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....

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The day she was stolen
The skies turned black
Locust ate at our very souls
In the name of God
I shout why?

The flowers of Hendon
Surround a black tombstone
How fitting
That as I see the blackness of that day in stone
The flowers around joyously sing to me
Bismillah

Our Sweetheart Sings...

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pines
    and cedar
liveoak
    and locust
chestnut
hickory
cottonwood
    & tuliptree:
boughs that
crackle
   in the wind
sweet
   &free
flight
    and song
of past&
present:
in
fluid
   movement
of lips
   that kiss
and 
speak
      aloud
in
  creative
     cadenced
      harmony...

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rain fingers stroke the Daphne’s neurosis
                 motionless.
            a laurel tree there.

rank-raw and austere, saucey and languid
fleckless like statue on a red room trip.

there’s this meticulous magic inventor
miming the locust in the elevator
genius and missionary 
his chariot of polygon hares....

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Once one could hear the locust
Prying up for their new birth,
Now we are in isolation.

Rain hugs the bricks of our cottage,
We wait ‘til the next wave of fear,
It will come - it will go.

There will be buzzes from above,
And we will wait for Mother Nature’s fury.
She didn’t like her new flowered hat.

Nor do we....

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That which is given unto me from those highest
Is given unto thee in the right of man,
For those who follow the most holy of paths 
Are protected by those of the most holy of ranks.
Never to be defied, never to be hurt, and never to be seen in the likes of evil.
A wanderer amongst stationary plagues,
A locust among flies

Channeled 5/4/2023...

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Life's Gardener

Multiply thou fruit
replenish thy gardens
beware of the locust
who feast upon destruction

nourish your seeds gently
consume lovely fragrances
show passion to thorns
for they are thy protectors

save flourishing roots
shower them with heredity
so they too may grow 
to know of your love.....

Bob Shank-june 11th, 2007...

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Locust of green
       Swarm of yellow
       Procession,
       Snakish march along
       The snaking path
       Obeisance!

       Mother,
       Dark fertile mother of
              Ijesa-isu Land
       Giant potter of thousand fingers
       Meek moulder of Midas touch
       Age-long furnace of golden embers
       Behold a citadel
       Alas!...

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