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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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Kim Stone
Categories:
swatted,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Gershon Wolf
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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Ilene Bauer
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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Tracy Wamarema
Categories:
swatted,
allegory, extended metaphor, gender,
Form:
Free verse
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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Kim Stone
Categories:
swatted,
1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Kim Stone
Categories:
swatted,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Kim Rodrigues
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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Jerry Brotherton
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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Duane Crichlow
Categories:
swatted,
hero, hilarious, humor, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
swatted,
fantasy, giggle, hyperbole, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Tom Woody
Categories:
swatted,
angst, humor,
Form:
Prose
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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Sally Eslinger
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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Nigel Gray
Categories:
swatted,
anxiety, death, death of
Form:
Rhyme
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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Nancy Kaufman
Categories:
swatted,
angel,
Form:
Light Verse
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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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
swatted,
1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
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