Short Roach Poems

letting the roach live
compassion
or squeamishness...

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Kitchen lights turn on ...
The creepy, crawly cockroach
into darkness runs....

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an unwashed plate sits
no one around to clean it~~
smiles as roach sponges...

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Find a leaf, or a wildflower, or a weed, or an ant, or a roach...
Then make just one from scratch...

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He was a mean old football coach
Who always had an odd approach
His antennas were long
His mouth was all wrong
His faced featured a giant cock-roach...

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Dear roach on the table
Legs up
Can you spell pathetic?
What a drama roach!

My mother would understand my disgust.
The wind blows the roach over.
Legs down. Not dead at all.
Ugh!...

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Encroached By A Roach

Encroached by a roach
Those insects which we do dread,
Who we wish were dead.  

Jim Horn

Roach with piston which will cock,
To me sounds like a bunch of crock....

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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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You deleted it!
Why?	
I am getting closed to you
Till we face each other
I hope I have the dang to share that lovely meet with.
Why you run like a ROACH?
I just want to make things clear ;)...

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Mr. Wink Vis Dang's vacancy meet!
The cardinal number that is the sum of 
My one line and his five.
You have nice colors at both wings
Your sound in the middle  
Without your favorite perfume 
soundless in row Roach....

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Scuttle scurry
Roaches
Askidaddle to the 
Left
Skidaddle to the 
Right.
Furious feets 
Propelling  
Gripping zip
Zero escape
Because 
Feee-fi-fo-yum
A roach soon will
Roast
Ex
    Ter
         Min
               Ate...

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APPROACH
I break my soul the mend the future approach
Are you thinking about being my coach
Life is sometimes the opposite of the roach
Don't ever try to be your own victim to proach
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando August 9, 2016...

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Trump Wore Broach With Roach

Trump as President around would pouch,
And when he did saw him wear a broach;
Also termite,
Full of spite,
Which would contain silhouette of a roach.

Jim Horn

Beto O'Rourke just said this on the news....

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I stood at the helm of,
      More
I fought in the valley of,
      Less
I, myself, I was the barrel of,
      War.

I lay in the ditch of,
      Gravy
I crawled up the walls of,
      Detest,
I, me, I was the roach of,
      Nobility....

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One of a kind
ocean music
pounding Goombay rhythms
against the rocks
and rake and scrape rhythms
in the prevailing winds
and the waves mashing the roach
with their feet on the dance floor
of sun and sand
giving awesome summer vibes
from daybreak to sunset...

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I could never write a poem about 
Horseradish
Dust bunnies
Nose hairs
Rat droppings
A dead roach
Cow pies
Mastication
Silverfish
Ketchup
A dirty diaper
A car engine
Naval fuzz
Cobwebs
Vampires
Microphones
Skateboards
Nail clippings
Torn limbs
I say and then I do....

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a flea jumps across
the arm of the recliner --
athletic insect

fly tastes the surface
of the bureau -- wood's polish
must be flavorful

a garden spider
darts along the windowsill
as on in-line skates

roach peers at me from
the chair across   it's rapt --
antennae flex and twitch...

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Trump and Black Roach

Everyone's environment Trump did encroach;
Even naked woman wearing beautiful broach;
Wiggle trying,
While  dying;
She had turned out to be a huge black roach.

Jim Horn

In order to put up with Trump you have to 
be able to laugh him off like his idiot supporters
do....

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Two cockroaches were talking as they munched garbage in an alley.
"I was just at that new restaurant across the street.
The kitchen is spotless. The floor shines a bright gleam.
There isn't any dirt anywhere. It's completely sanitary."
"Please," said the other roach frowning, "not while I'm eating."...

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praying* serenely

screams at the sight of a roach

sheer panic display

*Psalm 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

July 7, 2018
5th place, Senryu Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Mick Talbot; judged on 8/3/2018....

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A futile and doomed love
May be worse than nothing,
For nothing is nonexistence --
No impact, no effect, no feeling;
But this drains emotion and motivation.
This is my talent buried in the earth,
A fey magnet for thoughts and hopes,
A roach motel for the soul;
Its synthetically sweet fumes beckon,
And enervate and kill....

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Through and after
A nuclear blast
We'll still be around
Eating crap

Fear of light
Perserves out fate
Were hidden between cracks
In the darkest of place

Persnickety eaters
Surely not
We'll eat our own dead
Just merely for a snack

We will still be around
Long after you're gone
Eluding light
And eating crap...

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I espied a young roach
As he did encroach
Upon a spot I call my place
I gunned him with some mace

In madness he did flee
Into a hole I could not see
Twas assumed death was his fate
Yet he had only gone to mate

And so I sit where I still live
Viewing the territory I did give
Unto this most clever foe
And his multitudes born below...

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She came in as subtly as a verdent roach can
disguised as a ladybug, in a red polka dotted outfit
Beetles, grasshoppers and worms gave her a wide berth
feeling that something was wrong, but not quite knowing what
one brave firefly flew over to have a closer look
“It’s the one we banished,” he reported.
They chased her away, then, led by a young boy.
Bugs being who they are....

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My pet roach and I got cozy tonight
Ready for dreamland, our bed took flight
Roach loves it when we glide into outer space
I keep silent, sleeping with breathless grace.

Roach tries to tell me scary stories later.
Pretending we almost fell down a shaft, an elevator.
His wild fabrications are supposed to give me awful nightmares.
I ignore instigating, so he runs off to tease grizzly bears....

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