Silverfish Poems - Poems about Silverfish

...d weave her silk for housefly to arrest and so remove another pest. She is one more that we must leave. Let those silverfish have free reign to eat the dust that we produce. Airborne particles thus reduce, so leave them all to work......Read More

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

...d 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 clippin......Read More

...ying mantis brought sense of doom Other mantises quickly left the room Green lacewing came with water spring tail Silverfish brought rest of supper from jail Cicadas arrived with bottles of ale Unusual feather bug came smelling quit......Read More

...em like flies in summer heat, dripping aeroplane trophies chipped unscrewed vent whispering into a hand-held radio, silverfish in plastic bags hiding girl waiting to be sought, disappearing in snow covers in wedgwood stains & dead oa......Read More

...rived in a meteor showers that lasted 200 million years. Priced elements rare and highly valued soft golden yellow, silverfish-white most sought after metals in the world. As the years passed the metals have gradually worn away broke......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 Undulation......Read More

...like a slap Mouldy images stare back from the past Prints are all she has now Memories that still cling To the old Silverfish ravaged photographs Like slips pegged to a line, flailing in a gale One minute they’re there, the next they......Read More

...will hold This yellowed old tome These sad pages of poetry Sheets of simile And lines of depressed rhyme Where Silverfish have dined As it now gathers dust A must; if it’s to rest in peace Amongst This graveyard of books ......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 smell is awful, it even mak......Read More

...s of what would be Aberdeen, by nearly thirty million years, predate the oldest bugs that anyone had seen -- New York’s silverfish must now abdicate. Their body shape seems to exemplify what we today can still identify -- ancestors of our ......Read More

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

...aper 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 earth’s core and zodiac zones To recreate vibes syncing with a s......Read More

...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 see. I be a thief Good Grief!" On to Ol' Town's docks walks Goldyl......Read More

...ent walls Depression looms, Permeates, destroys. Its sterile white walls Are oppressive, Even claustrophobic. Silverfish slither Across white ceilings, I pray they don’t drop Into my mouth As I sleep. I lay on my roll ou......Read More