Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Poem: "Of Locusts and Plagues"

Here is the freebie poem for the September Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by a magazine article prompt from valdary.


Of Plagues and Locusts


A field swarms with locusts
and is subsumed.
Predators eat and grow sated,
yet the locusts remain.
Pathogens enter and are thwarted,
and still the locusts survive.

Scientists murmur, "That's funny,"
wondering why the locusts do not sicken.
They squeeze locust brains from chitin skulls
in hopes of defeating drug-resistant germs.
They seek to turn plague upon plague,
rising to fight fire with fire.

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  • 8 comments
valdary

valdary

September 7 2010, 21:02:18 UTC 10 years ago

That is awesome.
ysabetwordsmith

Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

September 7 2010, 22:25:43 UTC 10 years ago

I'm glad you like it.
ellenmillion

ellenmillion

September 8 2010, 21:33:42 UTC 10 years ago

Very cool! :)
ysabetwordsmith

Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

September 8 2010, 22:05:37 UTC 10 years ago

I'm glad you like it.
natf

natf

September 15 2010, 00:42:40 UTC 10 years ago

The insects will outlive us. Of this I am almost certain.
ysabetwordsmith

*laugh*

ysabetwordsmith

September 15 2010, 03:22:21 UTC 10 years ago

"When the universe collapses and dies, there will be three survivors: Tyr Anasazi, the cockroaches ... and Dylan Hunt, trying to save the cockroaches."
natf

Re: *laugh*

natf

September 15 2010, 13:49:41 UTC 10 years ago

Totally. Who said that?
ysabetwordsmith

Re: *laugh*

ysabetwordsmith

September 15 2010, 16:27:08 UTC 10 years ago

Tyr said it, in an episode of Andromeda</u>.