A busy mozzie’s buzz

By Rhiannonw

Tue, 08 Mar 2016

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It’s buzzing around my head,
I wish it would go somewhere else instead,
slam it and wham it –
Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz!

Vibrations in front and behind,
that reverberate round
in my mind –
a stuttering sibilant sound:
Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz!

Creep and leap,
its flight-path anticipate,
to stun, incapacitate:
Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz!

My judgement’s awry,
the flit of the fly
seems beyond calculation,
for its compound-eye vision
senses movement and shadow
and this fool cannot follow …

but, sure now I've got it,
I saw myself swot it …

Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz!
Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz!
Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz! …

[IP: The Buzzing In My Head]

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Comments

Very good I P Rhiannon,

Permalink Submitted by skinner_jennifer on Tue, 2016-03-08 12:48

Very good I P Rhiannon,

how I hate that buzzing too.

Jenny.

Thanks, Jenny. Was a bit of

Permalink Submitted by Rhiannonw on Tue, 2016-03-08 14:12

Thanks, Jenny. Was a bit of fun! Rhiannon

made me itch just reading

Permalink Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on Tue, 2016-03-08 13:15

made me itch just reading this!

Thanks, Insert. Must have

Permalink Submitted by Rhiannonw on Tue, 2016-03-08 14:13

Thanks, Insert. Must have worked then! Rhiannon

made me think of old fashioned

Permalink Submitted by maisie on Tue, 2016-03-08 22:17

encyclodedias for children where you'd find a section of poetry, and this is so charming that it would fit right in. Thank you for showing it to us. very much enjoyed.

maisie Guess what? I'm still alive!