Swatting Poems - Poems about Swatting

...tion of the sound. I entered the room to see a possum rummaging through my stuff. I grabbed my trusty broom and began swatting at it. a loud HISS from the possum startled me but I continued to shoo it out of my house. It chewed through ......Read More

...'t see the wind But its effects are in plain view. Sometimes the wind teases us, Playing with our hair, Or has us swatting at thistles and leaves Flying through the air. The wind can be kind, Tell to us our coffee's hot. Or to m......Read More

...see the wind, But it's effects are in plain view. Sometimes this wind teases us, Playing with our hair, Or has us swatting at thistles and leaves, Flying through the air. The wind can also be so kind, To tell us our coffee's hot.......Read More

...ying fair. Their clawing paws pause in sync with reporters at play with words, then resume, like rhetorical retorts swatting truth away. “The housing market's in a bubble,” they blurb on without a bobble, or hint of irony. And with ......Read More

...ass is purple in the field The roots of the oaks grow high So we pick our acorns off the ground And spend our summer swatting flies. written July 11, 2021 for "Word Play Poems" Poetry Contest sponsored by John Anderson ......Read More

... yet sufficient ego-powered control can feel chronic lack of thrival. Speaking not of win/win choice, but inside swatting interminable win/lose Voice never still until you self-shame and blame hiding hurts and unfree frames us ......Read More

...oating my passions wet and scaly goldfishing Surrounded by violent guppies I am just a rabbit hopping Trap stumbling swatting squirreling Zipping zapping tails much are marble As those the silent horned owls hoot-hoot owls laughing ......Read More

...ing (as beetles do when not chewing up other insects) around the lip of a bowl, clapping together stubby mandibles swatting the steam. Beetles are tanks they are built to withstand all in-coming, except maybe birds and the birds ......Read More

...ent droplets falling, drowning out ones own thoughts. Slippery, wet, humid, and dark, even in the day. Dodging and swatting at blood sucking mosquitoes known as family. Irritating with the saliva they spew, as they open their mouths ......Read More

...fish fly Buzzing around, large and black… As I mowed my lawn On a summers day And it would not fly away, No matter swatting And cursing it, as It dive bombed my neck... Till I sprayed it dead! W.C.Hull © 2020-8-6-H1450-2560-I52......Read More

...se see it? The ghostboy stares Through empty eyes, Blackened pits void of sight. Behind him lies an orange tabby Swatting at a ball of yarn And making colored banners. A festival of streaming ribbons. The past is gone, I murmur.......Read More

...waste food. In the evening I eat boiled cabbage with Portuguese smoked sausages, to give the soup zing. So, when not swatting flies, I’m respectful of life. ......Read More

... ` Hovering like a gnat that finds a face irresistible Swatting frantically does no good as insects will be insects and annoying is part of their plan As it seems each day......Read More

...iendship tree that is your mind is to heavy for my thinning branches my circle continues to shrink it's tiresome swatting lies.. those poisonous flies of life beneath my dying branches the dying fruit of life bring on the blo......Read More

...it disappeared Checked the entrance door all was locked And put the paper on the table after all it was Only good to swatting flies. Well, it was not a thief they do not knock Before entering, I went back to bed again. Before going ba......Read More