#fleas
Sometimes I do not know what to write,
What to think or even,
How to feel.
So I let my subconscious take lead,
and my fingers obey
Like a loyal dog with fleas
I feel I have to write
As desperate as the dog needs to itch
But sometimes the dog will itch so much it leaves a wound,
And the wound is still itchy
Soon before the dog knows, it's infected
Now it's on its way to the vet
Where the vet gives it cream and a cone around it's neck.
Unfortunately for the dog and unbeknownst to the master
The itch cream doesn't work.
Now, the dog is stuck with an itch and no way to scratch it.
But at least the dog doesn't have fleas anymore
Aug 9, 2025
Aug 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM UTC
For the guests there are
flowers, and hidden in them:
fleas waiting to strike.
Aug 18, 2024
Aug 18, 2024 at 3:31 AM UTC
A huckster from Huxby displayed
His circus of fleas to any who paid.
A bug on a trapeze
Can soar with such ease
And for wages takes marmalade.
Apr 4, 2024
Apr 4, 2024 at 2:07 PM UTC
I am the sorry dog,
Chasing my own tail- a subject of quiet dialogue.
Like the fleas, I cannot shake away,
I cannot seem to shake her face.
I am her sorry dog with no passage of rite,
A tortured creature, though sad and polite.
Love is not for those who preach it,
But for those instead who burn and weep for it.
I am the sorry dog with no home to follow,
Just a broken heart within me,
Blackened and hollow.
Apr 14, 2018
Apr 14, 2018 at 5:07 PM UTC
Fleas, ticks and chiggers
the bane of a rural life
animals suffer
Oct 16, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 at 2:24 AM UTC
Get rich quick: go and set up a flea circus!
Jul 28, 2015
Jul 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM UTC
The king of the castle sits,
His back paw scratching his head,
Ruminating.
The aging cat wonders if he'll ever lose
the itch.
Then, apparently having reached a satisfactory conclusion
The furry statesmen curls up by the fire
Drifting....
...off
to...
sleep...
he purrs softly to himself:
The rumble of unfathomable ponderings.
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014 at 12:41 AM UTC