Short Termite Poems

joist backpack muscle
remember pancake
cricket shuffle termite...

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Hollow log resonates
ancient cultural undertow
termites work incessantly....

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when all have well known 
you've entered my marrow ---
why insecticide?


26 May 2022...

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sun on holidays
my quilt is cool like wet wool ---
termite-eaten bed 


31 January 2023...

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location location location
in a compromising position
trying to eat you out
of house and home...

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O my love and passion!
And looks and glamour’s obsession
May you know upfront!
From teeth of time’s termite
Spared alone is sorrow...

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flesh or bones or wood 
inch by inch moves this termite ~
eating up empires


10 January 2022
A STRAND (1050) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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TERMITE PROPHECY


the cloudburst of wings

a buffet for dragonflies

determinant fare



5/26/2018
Magicicada Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy...

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Despite Each Terminite

We have fought for things  that are right,
Despite each enemy and terrible termite,
From sin  free,
Do want to be;
Had took a big  bite with all of his might.

Jim Horn...

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Aardvark
First animal
Alphabetically
Destroyer of high citadels
Thirty five million years, one diet 
Consuming whole populations
Poor eyesight, nocturnal
Termite eater
Aardvark
...

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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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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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Iridescent gossamer Dragonfly
Sparkles vividly in a haze of sunlight
Reflecting lucent pools and streams
Dining on frog spider and termite

Colorful transformations glittering
Decisively emerging in lakes or marshes
Zealously protecting her territory
Equilibrium balancing harshness...

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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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Always beware of the termite
Wise homeowners constantly fight
Incredibly destructive foe,
Exterminators surely know 
A buyer’s most off-putting sight.

Termites have no respect, you see
For you or your prized property,
They will devour your precious floor
Then look around for something more
You must show them no sympathy!

Written September 25, 2022...

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Flashing dusty lamp
The termite hill, damp
Cleft of a mountain unfinished
Its cliffs as though diminished.
Dewdrops decorating the window
The modest moonbeam show
Philodendron Birkin
Ancient wells caved in
All these, your paintings, you loved, I know
They are now without your glow.
Without you, the sight is unsettling.
The aches of your memories are deadening.
...

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Written by Gail DeBole on May 9, 2017
Updated on October 6, 2022

Max the chimp was in awe of his find.
A termite meal that boggled his mind.
Thousands trapped in the hill
He took care not to spill
And did not leave one termite behind.

This time there were extra to share
With his girlfriend whose name was Clare.
Thousands trapped in the hill
They took care not to spill
And did not leave one termite behind....

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Each day, so many wooden homes are eaten away.
A termite queen can lay two thousand eggs a day.
Damage is gradual, but it occurs day and night.
Those little insects have such a voracious appetite.
Most of us have heard of that branch of zoology.
The study of insects is known as entomology.
There is widespread destruction because of all of this.
No wonder exterminators have such a lucrative business.
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A termite’s a guy who just loves the woods
It gnaws him because he’s just not understood
His nightmares, a version of Sentricon hell
You love oak and cherry, why can’t he as well?
A villain who’s bred by your dereliction
Spy him out early, ‘cuz he’s no pulp fiction
He wants you to upgrade, pack up and move on
He’s Jaws and he’s Spectre ‘gainst your Termite Bond


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Chewing on No Sympathy For Termites by Milt Hankins...

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To a friend that died
How she cried…

Lamenting on her bed
She never wished this end.
It came as a rude shock
At a time on a strange clock
Like a dragon-head termite
Sapping all her might.

To God
Such her heart she never lend
Sought a chance to even every
odd
Pleaded her many a angel to
send.
And she breathed her last
Her decayed wore a veil cast

Such way leads beyond
Watch! Death can come at any
second.

Worthy of a praise or a blame
Gone her to claim......

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Sitting on the the green blanket

Crushing an ant and a termite

That are busy colecting their food in a bite

To eliminate and terminate

The hunger come winter

 

At the other end of the meadow

Among not a few willows

Are several windows

Upon which lives several widows

All looking out of their windows

 

Looking back at their past

Which is long past

Wondering how fast

Their lives flew fast

And wishing wistifully that the rest will also be fast...

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