Silverfish Poems - Poems about Silverfish

...Silverfish you are well-named, Silver you have; and fish? Fake! I haven't read all these books, famed, Is it, hence, their ribs you break...? Maps many you neatly mold, With holes, in nooks, n......Read More

... A school of silverfish looked up at me At least it seemed their eyes could see I acknowledged them with a bob of my head They bobbed me back ~ That's all we said......Read More

... Unwary reader Silverfish glide across page Damp infestation.......Read More

...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 V......Read More

...Emperor dragonfly had a ball Stag beetle came big and tall Water springtail brought housefly date Common cockroach came without a mate Eyed hawkmoth arrived in style Caught ladybug’s winsome s......Read More

...rural sewage, twister tunnel runs like water damaged dust and rat feces soaking the lawn down to a dog in the ground a town over rusted tin and pewter, twin-sized coffin in the air with its ups......Read More

...When the earth was formed, molten iron sank to its center to make the core. A cataclysmic meteorite showers that hit Earth after the core formed; they say Earth’s gold and platinum arrived in a me......Read More

...Placid surface looking glass still water Silence but for the cries of ducks silverfish minuscule reflections of an almighty orb casting its omnipresent being onto rippling water Undula......Read More

...She sits by a dying hearth, an album open in her lap The cold silent room startles like a slap Mouldy images stare back from the past Prints are all she has now Memories that still cling To the ......Read More

...It sits on a shelf, not quite by itself Leaning on another, bored by the other Waiting to be picked, waiting To be held It sits in the gloom, of a dusty room Filled with motes and lost notes ......Read More

...Its dark in here, there’s a scuttling noise, there is something I see The dinosaur of the modern age, silverfish are crawling free. There is a dripping sound; I smell an old wet rag In fact the smel......Read More

...Four hundred and eight million years or more ago, these mandibled arthropods were alive left years to languish in the fossil drawer, unearthed again, just crushed remains survive. These natives of w......Read More

... standing on the sand she lifts her face to the sun silverfish darts by ......Read More

...Wanton words or bits of paper Flotsam and jetsam or progenitors Damp squibs or ticking time bombs Collect..and recollect Their golden worth, silverfish and all Revived or transmigrated To touch......Read More

...Behin' bared doors, beneath yer floors, in cozy dens and caverns deep y'll find me der down under de stair where gutter rats scamper and silverfish sleep. "Who can I be, hmmmm let me s......Read More