Centipede Scare! Poem by s.zaynab kamoonpury

Centipede Scare!

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A centipede found its way into our home
My hairs stood on end for hours on end!

And while we tried learning about it on Google search,
in a dark and damp crevice it made its perch

All the cyber net did was to amplify my fears
It also yielded that our azure electric-blue vermin
was quite hot on the market
Making me wonder how people could fancy
such a nightmarish pet!

For this wasn't just any pest
This had hazardous venom
I fearfully wondered if they had
its antidote serum.

We couldn't just ignore
a pair of painful pincers on the loose
There wasn't way to rope those
like bull horns in a noose.

Here was a venomous predator
complete with stinging apparatus
Its bite portended pain
and complications humongous!

It did appear to have those rumoured hundred segments
but count scaredy me out from counting those myriad ligaments.

This insectivore when we tried then to shoo,
with lightning speed it zig-zagged out of view!


So now it lurks but we can't find it anywhere
and gosh its stingers triple their size in my nightmare!
besides leaving us with a proliferation scare.!

And but timid me thanked God once again
to my great relief how thoughtful of Him indeed
to create venomous creatures that inflict stinging pain
but atleast are unable to zoom in flying at us at flying speed! .

(a flyin scorpion, centipede wud have been far more terrifyin n dangerous eh) .

Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: Art
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Valsa George 29 April 2014

After reading your poem only I started thinking of the scare a flying centipede or flying scorpion can inflict! ! Ouch.... If they sting.....! I shudder to think of it....! Any way this scary creature has motivated(?) rather dismayed you to write such an interesting poem.... Enjoyed much! !

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Chuy Amante 03 May 2014

I had several great laughs reading this! If he arrives in my house per chance, I'll seek his many hands and upon his little head I'll dance! Just what the woman demands!

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Noreen Carden 06 May 2014

Very nicely written it made me smile.Well done I enjoyed reading this

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Kevin Patrick 08 May 2014

Sounds garish, but quite funny, on the bright side your centipede problem allowed you to write this unique body of work. I like centipedes but I admit if I found one crawling around my bedroom at night I might have to reconsider loving all of gods creatures. Funny write, thanks for sharing.

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A sweet observatio and painting in words

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Soulful Heart 25 July 2014

so beautifully put in verse the common scare of a poisonous insect.......................a tinge of comic hue made it more salty to savour.....

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Akhtar Jawad 10 July 2014

An interesting and entertaining write.

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Akhtar Jawad 10 July 2014

An interesting and entertaining write.

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Vijay Sai R 24 June 2014

sounds very creepy...sometimes eerie too

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Bri Edwards 14 June 2014

my favorite stanza....so far: We couldn't just ignore a pair of painful pincers on the loose There wasn't way to rope those like bull horns in a noose. ......................and pincers even look like horns, in miniature! - - - - - - stingers could use an apostrophe i think :) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - another favorite: This insectivore when we tried then to shoo, with lightning speed it zig-zagged out of view! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i saw your name and comment after someone else's (spelling? ; it gets underlined in red no matter how i spell it!) poem. we've met before, but i have been ignoring your fine poems, but not on purpose! ============================== SO, I WONDER how you all made out. Did you corner the critter and bang its snout? Or did it come at you with crawling-but-deadly speed? Just tell us: DID you die? The details i don't need. And, if you died, then you needn't answer me. Don't forget to thank God that it all for free! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - thanks for sharing. fun, clever, well-written. bri :) i've added this poem to MyPoemList. i also think i'll send to my 'college' friend bill, in fiji.

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