The Problem With Carrying A Big Stick

I felt a prick, I got out quick…
I think it’s safe to bet
The #wasp nest that I just knocked down
Was not quite dormant, yet.

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#thingstowriteabout #poetry

Yellowjackets,
Buzz and sting,
Summer wasp,
On tiny wing,
Hornet song,
Stripe and bite,
Paper nests,
At rooftop height.

#thingstowriteabout wasp

Spectral rainbows glisten
in the babbling brook,
paper wasps buzz
above scented honeysuckle,
dulcet skylarks trill
musical notes drift
through verdant meadows,
serene nature draped
in springtime charms.

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The forest, my friends they
Crawl, they pretend to a
Lie, as they hide, lay eggs
Deep inside, the living, the
Minds lose control, the
Hives they still know, the
Larva will grow to the
Forest my friends, all
Wasps in the end

#thingstowriteabout
#wasp #poetry #prompt
#nature #writingcommunity

As a kid, while eating cotton candy, I was stung into my lip. After the first had settled a little & I cried a little less, the first thing i said to my mom was: "That was not very fair of that #wasp!"

#thingstowriteabout

Stung by a #wasp
who was
defending its home
according to it
your property
just happened
to be where
he built his abode
first

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social distancing
I stealthily avoid
the wasp nest
#thingstowriteabout

Strong smelling cider,
Secret garden wars, bees flee,
Revenge of the wasp.
#ThingsToWriteAbout #wasp #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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A dried wasp nest detail.

Today’s Friday April 10th prompt is #wasp (this is a dried wasp nest) #thingstowriteabout

3/4

...pulling her forward.

"What does eternity mean to you?" They ask her.

"Nothing," she replies, "there is only now."

She banks on this as she moves on.

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#poetry #firewords280 #BraveWrite #PennedReveries
#BrknShards #UnchainedSymphonies #Vibes_gothicvss #WriteMap 473
#thingstowriteabout ..

Streamside hedges
overgrown around
rusted wheelbarrow&troll
nestled in leafy shrubs
sneaky hedgehogs grab slugs

#tanka #TankaThursday #poetry #vssfantasy #vss365 #inkmine #BSPP52 #poem #thingstowriteabout
#skypoets #writing

broken razor
other half calls me
"my little #hedgehog"

#thingstowriteabout

In this harsh existence
There is an insistence
On personal resistance
Grow a thick skin
And spines, needle thin
To protect what’s within
Don’t ask for the courtesy
Of understanding diversity
What an absurdity
Just be a hedgehog

#thingstowriteabout #hedgehog #cassiopeian #exist

The #hedgehog
a ball of spikes
a prickly
personality
to go with
the untouchable
but a lovable
grump
nonetheless.

#thingstowriteabout #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

leaving its den
a hedgehog steps out
for a night on the town
#thingstowriteabout

Goodbye ceramic #hedgehog
#blistered by the sun
I've packed my #stuff
I'm #moving #out
I'm gonna miss ya, #mum

#thingstowriteabout
#emoetry
#WIPSnips
#OurPoetryX
#inkmine

Rustling bushes,
Hedgehog hustling, pre-dawn
Forage through the leaves.
#ThingsToWriteAbout #hedgehog #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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Yesterday’s season is leaf clutter and bone dry. Hedgehog snuffle and root scratch. It is now an inbetween green and expectation. Small fuzzy catkins and geese call. Feather flurries of returning songs and custard yellow sun. It is a wide yawn of Spring waking up.

#thingstowriteabout hedgehog

A pretend hedgehog on flower paper.

Today’s prompt for Thursday April 9th is #hedgehog #thingstowriteabout

It turns out the Illuminati
Are not known for #illumination
Not burning men gathering
Seeking desert salvations
Or ravers throwing lights
Under Molly’s adoration
They’re not three blonds
Changing a light bulb situation
No, the Illuminati are just born
Out of paranoid delusions

#thingstowriteabout

#thingstowriteabout #fiction #amwriting #writingcommunity #authors #writersofbluesky #chronicillness #prompt

It isn't #small that act of kindness. The monumental task is something I didn't think anyone could or would do. Not for me at least. Yet here they are with swords and words, defending me.

With each supernovae came the howling winds that filled their sails to the brim. Blowing them out into the unknown paths of distant planets, where laser cannons would fire. Each world would become a stamp in the intrepid traveler’s keepsake album.

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I turn #toward the #illumination
I #shout, at last I'm free
off to #find #new #adventures
gone the chains of #agony
I #need now but #bank on me

#2wordprompt
#thingstowriteabout
#OurPoetryX
#emoetry
#WIPSnips
#vss365
#poetry

sparks fly - lightning strikes -
sense becomes unhidden &
I ... I become me

#thingstowriteabout illumination
#haiku

Eternity is
the second you kiss me goodnight,
the moment your hand touches my cheek,
the way your love #illuminates my love.

Eternity also is
the instant the tongue of fire licks
my back, unti, fighting fire with fire,
I get my heating pad ready

#MPPrompt #thingstowriteabout