Short Swats Poems

Teasing on my pie
To swat you again I’ll try
Pesky little fly

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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a mosquito feeds
always biting on the run
avoiding my swats
my legs stinging from her thirst 
a bloody meal for her eggs...

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Eye knew it

The dirty fly has compound eyes 
It sees in all directions
A swatter swats it anyway
So much for eye protection

Randomling Contest August 30, 2015...

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reaching for new heights
I climb a step stool --
feline eyes watch

perched up high
cat swats my reaching hand --
a step backwards

a scream resounds --
the floor breaks my fall
and also my wrist


6/19/16
(true story)...

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I have a loving, smart, Bengal wild cat
Many different behaviors he shows
He is strong and very dominant at that
He hates to be told what to do, he knows

So much, that sometimes when I turn around…
He reaches up and swats me in the ass!
Very vocal too, he is never without a sound
But, I have loved him, 15 years that have passed

Heidi Sands

8/27/17...

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Forget being an anarchist
Forget being a feminist
Forget being anti racist

Her body is swaying to the sound of music
A man holds her waist and they dance
His fingers go lower
She swats them away
She walks outside
He finds a new target
A drunk woman kisses her
She pushes her away
She puts her hands in her afro and says
“you are the most beautiful Black girl I have seen”...

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grizzly grazing a meadow
pretending not to notice the dancer
wind shifting-it stands horribly- tall
sniffs the air
pivots nonchalantly
methodically swaggers
appetite enhanced
moment ignited
by the ancient guide 
it charges-bloody eyed
stomping the meadow blossoms
it swats at the dancer
again -again and again
as she flits toward the cliff
brute tumbling over 
to its cold slag death
ballerina dancing
over the screaming crag...

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My
small cute
kitty cat
is a lady.
How delicately
she creeps along the bed!
As if to beg my pardon,
she apprehensively proceeds
until, finding the spot she prefers,
she settles, softly purring, on my head.

Jan. 11, 2017 
For  Brenda Chiri-Carroll's "For the Love of Kittens" Poetry Contest
(This is true! She loves sitting on the  pillow right near my head and she lightly swats at me in the morning to get up and get her food!!)...

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