Short Locusts Poems

Live barbed wire
Fencing nation from nation
Against locusts...

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a walk in the park
butterfly on pink flowers
locusts buzz loudly...

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Where will the locusts go when they have taken all they can from America...

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Soft flimsy red moths
settled like starving locusts
over brittle straw...

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locusts singing with
the breeze reminds how peaceful
a porch swing can be....

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          They left as they came

            silent, unseen ~
 
              pundits’ forecasts sucked
...

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No UV today 
       Plagues of ravenous locusts 
              Blot out solar rays
        
By David Kavanagh...

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           Stiff
          Not There
         Just a shell
      Much like locusts
            empty...

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Shoals
swirling
in the sky-
like locusts in
flight-
as
light fades
the massing
starlings roost at
night

Note.Scene on the Somerset levels...

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People around me
Flock like locusts
They whispering 
As if were rats on a putrid lake
They say about me
Things I had not done
For I corpse at front of them...

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John the Baptist in a camel hair "suit"
Girded with a leather belt to boot
On a steady diet of wild honey and locusts
It's a wonder he was able to maintain his focus...

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   Ah, communing with Nature is nice
      'til Winter arrives with its ice

   But this year green bushes will choke us
      'cos they'll be teeming with locusts
...

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Yellow fire hazards blemish the lawn,
prickly to bare summer feet.
Locusts overtake the heat.
Aphids feast and continue to spawn,
yet still remain strawberries to eat.

7-8-2021...

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these stories cannot stop

they reverberate through my brain

like neverending swarms of locusts

they cannot stop

they cannot stop because they are what is

what has

and what will be....

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Locusts and crickets rub their legs like mad
   Their summer night symphonies uniformly bad

Yet when chill breezes still these musicians' strings
   I long for the return of their discordant wings...

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In the old graveled alley, overgrown with weeds,
at footfall, locusts sprang and leaped,
triggering a riot.
But soon their swelling motion
subsided like fried popcorn on a skillet.
...

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Reckless tumbleweed
hurries across forgotten graves
of those who toiled through despair
and anguish
fighting drought and famine
depression and unemployment
heat and cold
locusts and dust storms
daily uncertainty......

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    The hardest language is Vietnamese
    Even harder to pronounce than Chinese
       It sounds like birds chirping
       Or sick locusts slurping
    Ask them to say, ‘French Cruller, pretty please!’  



    
...

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fooled
by deception,
bigotry and hate
set out
to seize the day...
totally unaware
they would encounter
justice...peace...love...
erupting from each step
along the way
they would dare:
truth prevails...
never fails......

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The locusts yet screech after dawn
  While the buzzard cackles from his perch
The red sun's inflamed in the morn
   Snarled traffic pauses to lurch...

Staring into the abyss of an angry rush hour
  ~ Workers from home take a shower...

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Saša Milivojev - LOCUSTS



Black mountains are crumbling

The locusts hiss all around

Suddenly all is gone

The buzzing has harvested it all

Gnawed bones

Float soaked

 

 
Saša Milivojev

www.sasamilivojev.com...

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The sounds of Autumn
Crickets legs as violins
Locusts screech from nowhere close.

Throwing their voices
As ventriloquists mimic
While leaves are strummed by slow winds.

Lightening bugs culminate
Sight into the symphony
My personal Fantasia....

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like locusts
swarming innocent crops	
in their prime
we likewise slaughter
our fields of dreams
as well as moral pride—
idle consciousness
impervious to the nipping
of the shoots 
of chosen buds of youth
trounced 
in the fields of our streets....

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Why at war I have no clue
all I do is eat and chew

Don’t kill your flocks
like a carnivore fox

Or mow your crop
with a locusts chop

Of wood I take a tiny bite
for that you engage me to fight?


First Place Winner: A Brian Strand Couplet Contest 7/28/21...

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she
is loca
me
i'm loco

she 
is loca dulce
me
i'm locoer

she
is loca por el amor
me
i'm locoerer

she
is mi sueño loco de esperanza
me
i'm locoest

did
you
say
locusts

the eighth
plague and yet
i plague of allegiance
to the gag orders against her...

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