Always beware of the termite
Wise homeowners constantly fight
Incredibly destructive foe,
Exterminators surely know
A buyer’s most off-putting sight.
Termites have no respect, you see
For you or your prized property,
They will devour your precious floor
Then look around for something more
You must show them no sympathy!
Written September 25, 2022
Categories:
termites, insect,
Form: Quintilla
Let us at Risk-Taking Dave
Lengthily rave
For choosing to live in a cave
Also, The Choice of a Gorilla
That could demolish a stout slave
And wrestling Victory not release to a Godzilla …
To Risk-Courting Dave
Now in Echoing Cave
To improve on His high Octave
Mention that he’s risking an early grave
For not being The Muscularly Brave
That termites his fresh corpse shall crave
As he deigns to ways for it pave …
The soonest of requiems in a nave
For his life he never could save
With pleas Gorillas aside wave.
Categories:
termites, character, death, desire, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Treading hard in a sea of lies
With anchor feet and foggy eyes,
Can we yet float another day
With no ship to take us away?
When seas were calm, we saw the shore.
With swelling seas, we see no more
Midst waves of tergiversation
That inundate our great nation.
Flotsam and jetsam next us ride,
Floating, helpless, on surging tide;
The framework of Old Ironsides
Drifts to history’s rocks abide.
Its hardy hull to wormwood turned
While loud progressive termites churned
As our silence helped drown our dreams
With flailing freedom’s gurgling screams.
Categories:
termites, endurance, fate, fear, freedom,
Form: Quatrain
Glad we won't have to drive our selves crazy,
And her name is either Daisy or Mazie;
Rave and shout;
Democrat no doubt,
Who always will work hard and is never lazy.
Just had inspection of termites,
On both arms should see bites;
Was of dwelling;
Should see swelling;
Some say they may be Shiites.
Jim Horn
Categories:
termites, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
aging darken
dead ember wood
creaking left bare
eating termites
in colonies
hard destructive
winged eating bugs
hollow out trees
9/1/2019
Poetry Contest: Charlie-Quadku
Sponsored by: Charles Messina
Categories:
termites, tree,
Form: Haiku
How will a house turn into a mansion?
It will demolish and rebuild.
I am the same way,
Eaten by termites that said they loved me.
Demolished with hatred,
So I rebuild my self with self-love.
Categories:
termites, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
million termites
on African savannah ~
a tall earthen mound
Categories:
termites, africa, insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
Crazy termites filed their way
then camped in my gardens
I looked on amused at their abilities
soon they slashed down my crops
Without wasting time and chance
crazy termites moved on to my cottage
I heard them knock at my door
I refused to open anyway in defiance
Crazy termites not my guests
worked at my door, roof and rafts
I looked on in anxious amusement
but my house crumbled on my face
Crazy termites never get tired
they visited my neighbors too
their gardens went on their bellies
with no food, no shelter we are fools
Categories:
termites, imagery, natural disasters,
Form: Quatrain
Drunken man slept
on head termites built anthill
woke up, made alarm
Categories:
termites, addiction, satire,
Form: Haiku
The termite culture's rich and vast,
more so, sometimes, than humankind,
with martyrs and mujahideen,
and projects ponderous yet precise,
and back-up plans, a hundredfold.
How do they do it?
Society is based on caste,
with tasks and territory assigned
by social rank. Some watch, some wean,
some whittle, weave, ward off, entice,
while food for all is fairly doled.
How do they do it?
Their architecture's unsurpassed,
with geodesic shapes, designed
with opulence almost obscene,
and altruists. Self-sacrifice
is common. And they mine for gold!
How do they do it?
Hardly least and never last,
over her subjects (all of them blind)
there reigns a massive, fertile queen,
releasing pheromones (how nice!)
She lives to forty-five years old!
How do they do it?
Categories:
termites, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Would you let termites into your home?
The kind that worm their way in with spite,
Uninvited and pretending to become
Like you, yet all the while sneer, delight
In trashing your abode with their teeth,
Chewing at your foundations with malice
Pray five times a day that your feet
Might fall like burnt towers to suffice
The hunger of their blind raging anger.
Make you fear, bow down to their whims
Always offended yet slither their way to power
With cunning and guile like snakes it seems,
To clothe you with their vain morbid rules,
Void the last remnants of your fathers' freedoms
Turn leaders to blind puppets, and you, to fools?
Would you?
Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~11.21.14
Categories:
termites, america, political,
Form: Verse
Hollow is
The broken branch
Off the family tree
Categories:
termites, analogy, art,
Form: Haiku
Each day, so many wooden homes are eaten away.
A termite queen can lay two thousand eggs a day.
Damage is gradual, but it occurs day and night.
Those little insects have such a voracious appetite.
Most of us have heard of that branch of zoology.
The study of insects is known as entomology.
There is widespread destruction because of all of this.
No wonder exterminators have such a lucrative business.
Categories:
termites, animals, business, science,
Form: Rhyme