After the frenzied flutter of their nuptial flight,
Termites land on my bathroom floor.
The double wings now slicked back
Trail on the tiles
Like a monarch’s train.
Dionesia from the Bicol Region of the Philippines
Cries: Pieces!
Ma’am, I found three pieces!
Like chocolate or music.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Луговской – Гуниб
- Twas’ the Night Before Christmas and Santa got Drunk by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- Quiet by Tony Hoagland
- Владимир Орлов – Ночной листок
- Midnight poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Seeing The Elgin Marbles For The First Time poem – John Keats poems
- Вера Павлова – О чем
- First Poem by Peter Orlovsky
- A World So Different by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Portrait by Siegfried Sassoon
- Start Growing by Rixa White
- Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Бывает в жизни человека)
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).