Short Millipedes Poems

When I was a kid
I touched the red millipedes
To make them look round!...

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scraping of the soil
invasion of millipedes
unearthed by rakers ~
those roly poly critters
in every nook and cranny

9/6/2021
A Buggy Tanka
M.L. Kiser...

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The Millipede Parade

Left home pet sitting, I felt unlucky.
One dog got sick and days became yucky.
Vacation in Portugal
Fun loving dreamy dazzle –
Then came the millipede parade…Whoopee!

NOTE: MILLIPEDES CAN BE A PROBLEM IN PORTUGAL...A BIG PEST!...

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monsoon 

velvet mites appear 
roam as though lost their mates  ---
blood-red carpets spread 

flies sip my teacup 
to get a taste of my lip ---
some linger so long

white ants don't enter
as my mesh nets don't allow ---
mosquitoes set, yet...

midst cockroaches creep
centipedes and millipedes ---
calm leeches suck blood...

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Your life is poetry— 
whether words make it 
on a page, a screen, an ear, 
 
whether messages 
or moments 
meet the light of dawn, 
parturition processed 
sourced from the dusk 
of fears and hopes. 
 
You are ebbs 
you are flows— 
you are metaphors 
blooming till they grow feeble 
crinkling into fallen flowers, 
meeting millipedes 
meeting mess— 
to grow again 
anew—stalks sturdy— 
hope an approaching fire 
Flower, 
Locus, 
Living....

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Mom hated Millipedes, she didn't like them at all.
Whenever she saw one, it made her skin crawl.
She hated them because she was afraid of being bit.
One day she saw a Millipede and she threw some rocks and crushed it.
Mom hated Millipedes or 1000 legs which is what they're also called.
Whenever she saw a millipede she became both scared and appalled.
Mom hated 1000 legs, that's what has been decreed. 
I'm not lying when I say that Mom hated Millipedes....

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