HIVES
Within a loathsome forest
Where nothing good survives,
Horrid buzzing resounds
From a dozen monstrous hives.
Colossal bees emerging from
The hives to swarm at prey,
Stinging, stabbing, killing
Everything that's in their way.
Black and yellow horrors
Which blot out the azure sky,
Hunting through the alleyways
For innocents about to die.
Furious wingbeats overhead
As apian monsters draw near,
A buzzing fills the dire night sky
As people run away in fear.
Swooping down upon victims
Bombinating through the night,
As droning fills the atmosphere
Not long after the first twilight.
Reptile-like susurration starts
Kilometres from the town,
Rapidly becomes angry whirring
As Apian fiends soon abound.
Zizzing is fast approaching
From an abhorrent forest,
When sleeping horrors awaken
To attack a town at rest.
Aggressive humming echoing
From distant colossal hives,
Death and destruction rain down
Until nothing is left alive.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Within a loathsome forest Where nothing good survives, Horrid buzzing resounds From a dozen monstrous hives.
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Written on April 02, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on April 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,007 |
Words | 179 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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