INSECTILE CREATURES



Insectile demons
From another time and place,
Hunting human prey.

Insectile fiends hunting:
Chitinous clicking sounds,
Terrify their prey.

Insect-like creatures:
Lovecraftian fantasy?
Or dire, horrid truth?

Insectile monsters
From out of time and space,
Feast on humanity.

Dark antennae raised
Seeking out human food,
Within this lonely town.

Clicking mandibles
Horrid arachnoidal faces,
Coming toward you.

Insectile fiends
Perhaps from another galaxy,
Lost in time-space.

Weaving evil webs
Like some kind of spiders,
Eating whatever sticks.

Space monsters?
Or from another dimension,
Devouring humans whole.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Insectile demons From another time and place, Hunting human prey.

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Written on July 08, 2003

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABC XXC DEX DBE XXX AXX XEB XDX DXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 651
Words 96
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

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