Short Pests Poems

egg case on bare branch
survives ravages of winter
future assassins...

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veil shrouds ovaries
perfume entices suitors
thorns extinguish pests...

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~~ In the glorious garden of life, stalkers are the weeds, slugs and snails ~~...

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humans ...   little fleas

              no universal import

                   arrogance filled pests...

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rat with bushy tail
mesh trap black hole for squirrels
swimming school failures

Brian Johnston
October 22, 2015...

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THE HIPPOPOTOMOUSE

A rare and dangerous species
is the hippopotomouse
If you get one in your attic
Then you’d better leave your house....

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Winter's gone and soon shall Spring.
Summer's close, on doors upcoming.
Wonder what its wings to bring but
awful pests and cheeks with stings...

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Pigeons are irritating urban pests
  There is no doubt I don't say this in jest
     They'll poop on a bench
     Creating a stench
  Sentence 'em to twenty years in a nest...

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Putin would obliterate Earth
Kim Jong-Un denies Earth has worth
They want to destroy
Every girl and boy
They should try killing flies in Perth!

(and/or mosquitoes everywhere)...

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Out of their hotels like gypsies they roam,
so we fumigate our infested home.
Foglike drugs they inhale —
roach smoke under the veil.
Dear Mary Jane makes herself right at home.

2/20/2018...

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Targetes attracts the hoverfly
black & green cousins,then die

Fennel alongside red cabbage
will deter the white butterfly

Caliente mustard,a manure green
banish soil pests,from the scene...

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Fruit flies are buzzing all around me constantly.
Bed bugs won't allow me to get any sleep,
and cockroaches are infesting every thing that I eat.
How much longer before I lose what's left of my sanity?...

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Lookin' after pests
Keepin' a CLOSE eye on 'em
"Those wild animals!"

Roamin' around zoo
Searchin' for sneaky monkey
Hidin' in a tree

Zookeeper gets mad
"Where's Marty, the smartypants!?"
"He TOOK my cage keys!"...

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I killed a fly— swat, 
One that bothered me a lot,
But that stopped me not,

Another fly— swat,
Missed and missed, me in a spot,
Pests may learn, men not.
_____________________________ 
Haiku |33.06.2021|...

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If I could design my garden pests, I would have pink tobacco hornworms
Rainbow striped lady bugs, and bees carrying dusters instead of stingers
The faeries would wipe their feet on my dahlias and call me Trixie...

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All the leaves have turned green
No white flakes anywhere to be found
Grass being invaded by beings from the sky
Bugs and pests that have hid are in abundance now
Me left to mow that same grass
Dreading the suns heat 
Desiring the shade...

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Buzzing above me
Whizzing through shadowy flight
Stabbing fangs in skin
Causing welts and itchy bites
Festering plots slay these pests





A Buggy Tanka Contest
Sponsored by: M. L. Kiser
August 21, 2021

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Dandelions are Mother Nature’s gold medallions,
Hated by master landscapers as obnoxious weeds
Marching across manicured lawns like battalions,
A whiff of wind releases thousands of their seeds.

written January 27, 2022...

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Rodents that stealthily invade a home,
Agile and able to crawl through tight spaces.
Troublesome pests that chew holes and leave droppings,
Scurrilous scavengers with beady-eyed faces.

8/23/13
For Andrea Dietrich's Four Letter Word Acrostic contest....

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dancing under the moonlight
oblivious to the pests
flying with a buzzing sound 
mosquito bite me

romance a thing of the past
a puffed-up lip can do that
I tried my best to swat him
send him Nikko’s way

By: Wilma Neels

©080420122332...

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Limerick : Once Schuhmacher/Shoemaker from Brazilia

Once Schuhmacher/Shoemaker from Brazilia
Made a shoe shaped like the Ark of Noah
Birds and beasts of forests
Fought acarien* pests
Till toes itched: that’s how Man danced the Salsa!

* mite

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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There hasn't been
a fly, wasp, or mosquito 

For quite some time, now,
making it rather vexing 

To diss in rhyme 
about local pests, 

Though, at the very 
least-a, our Cuban anoles 

Are guests in Havana 
until after Easter. 

That's where they went 
to observe Lent....

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What is that? I ask.
It looks like an enormous ant pile.
Taller than a two story house.
African termite mound, a biologist says.
What are they doing here? I say.
My voice sounds like a scared scream.
This is not Africa!
Terrmites heard me and moved their mound.
They might be pests, but they are intelligent pests....

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Listen to poem:

outside my window
I see them colluding
plotting and scheming

obviously planning
for some mischievous purpose
to take over the world

they're quiet now but not for long
soon I know they'll set their plan in motion
and who knows what trouble they'll get into



AP: 1st place 2022

Posted on November 27, 2022...

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Roaming over the wheatfields
     their joints a-cranking
   insecticide fog blankets the air
     Oklahoma dustbowl bleeds 

   Relics of a bygone day, all angles they move
     ravaging fields and pests, pests and fields
   wheels of progress a-churning away
     blackening golden grain
                 ~ pests' entree, noonday...

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