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Swatted Poems - Poems about Swatted

Premium Member Bug Eyes
... The fly swatter is out, Bugs are all about. How could that be, What I see? Has many legs. Not a spider, Or a fly. But something fanciful on the eye! Swat......

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Categories: swatted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bored with Nature
... Bored with nature, I spurned the gay meadow Stepped on ladybugs, swatted butterflies Turned my back on creation Complained of blue skies Scorned the sun’s ra......

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Categories: swatted, beauty, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



A Screened-In Porch
...There’s nothing like a screened-in porch To help me to relax. It brings to me a comfort My apartment surely lacks. The birdsong and the swishing leaves, The swaying of the trees, Combined wit......

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Categories: swatted, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The Bee Poem
...Did you know there are more than 20,000 known species of bees, but only 5 percent are social bees? Only 5 percent allow you to get to know them. They’re minding their business, building their nests, ......

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Categories: swatted, allegory, extended metaphor, gender,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Food play
... The carrots jumped up and grabbed my nose, Swatted them back down with my toes! Spinach curled round my fork, Had two eyes! I knew it was alive. The peas lined ......

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Categories: swatted, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cruisin
...I'm a fly on the wall, I like to see it all. As you unpack, Putting away this and that. Off to explore, As the boat leaves the shore. Will it sink? Boy, that would stink! Too many people,......

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Categories: swatted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member hit my knees
...hit my knees couldn’t float hand swatted away should I have crawled my way to the altar ledge God smiles lifts me up brushes me off blesses me ......

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Categories: swatted, god,
Form: Free verse
Crying Hands
... These once nimble fingers, pinned diapers on your behind. Swatted the misbehaving toddler, when you got out of line. Held you the first day of school, applauded loudly as the graduate passed......

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Categories: swatted, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Exterminator
...Driving through the neighborhood in a shiny armored truck, The exterminator arrives, looking to make a few hundred bucks. He goes from door to door and asks to come inside: And he already knows th......

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Categories: swatted, hero, hilarious, humor, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oceanic Encounters of a Pinching Kind
...Swimming in the ocean a wincing couple pinches Little creature on my leg not more than six or seven inches I looked again, to my surprise Hello! - a trilobite!......

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Categories: swatted, fantasy, giggle, hyperbole, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fly
...NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it six feet under, as you know, so I'm posting it here. I understand t......

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Categories: swatted, angst, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Trapped Wasp Tale
...*** The Trapped Wasp’s Tale *** Today I am a wasp in the room Noticed when Sights of light began the sounds Of my tap-smacking Head bangs Trying to get through the glass pane In the wall, fo......

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Categories: swatted, character, fear, feelings, flying,
Form: Personification
Like Rabbit In a Headlight Caught
...PTSD Like rabbit in the headlight caught I want to move, i know I ought But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified  My body still, arms laid by side Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked From swea......

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Categories: swatted, anxiety, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Calling All Angels
...Do you struggle with burdens? Are you drowning in despair? Does a web of negativity permeate your air? When you travel down life's roads, on your journey, that quest, and God has clearly put you ......

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Categories: swatted, angel,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Good Samaritan
...The mailman frowned at the black snarling cat He picked up his sack and smacked the air with a bat But my baby is in there! The mama cat said. The next time he swatted, he almost hit her head. ......

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Categories: swatted, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

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