Ants

Ants, ants watch them prance across the lawn and over the plants

They walk in lines, climb the vines and dig deep maze like mines

Some harvest the grain, make land their terrain and with a bite cause pain

Others build homes in my yard and without regard all my work retard

An army surrounds their mounds, where their society abounds

Outside their door they wage war on those not part of their corps

When involved in a fight, might makes right 

Without a pause they enforce their laws with gaping jaws 

They have a queen, an egg laying machine, hiding underground unseen

Mushrooms farm, have guards for alarm, and aphids charm

These they ranch, heard on a branch, latter take their milk by tranche

They'll eat anything it's true, have a sweet tooth too, aren't they like me and you

Reviews

[Marie]

Beautiful rhythm and rhyme in this fabulous write filled with information about ants.Ants working together are undefeatable! They work so very hard at their chores, they help each other and each ant can carry ten to fifteen times his/her weight. They are absolutely methodical. We are like the ants, but unlike the ants we are blind without a method. A great write on the ant colony, you display their power, their care for their colony, their desire to work hard without question, etc. Lovely pictures painted of the ants at work in your poem. I love the final line in the poem where the poet asks a question and the answer has to be a resounding "Yes!" with regard to liking sweet things, other than that I feel that ants and human beings have little in common. All the positives are on the ant's side! Adorable poem, penned with humour, most informative about how the ants live. Excellent inking and imagery sublimely sketched! Thank you for sharing, dear friend Soren. Lovely work!

[Soren]

Thanks Marie for the read and observations yes man and ants one of the few animals that wage war. We often follow our leaders like ants regardless. Your reads are always such a pleasure.

[Marie]

Most welcome always, dear Soran. Thank you for sharing, dear friend...

[Red Brick Keshner]

As I read this in my head played “when Johnny comes marching home again…” crazy ants, love ‘em, hate ‘em; they’re there with or without us!

[Soren]

Thanks Red I can't help but see the similarities good and bad between them and us

[Red Brick Keshner]

Agree! Totally 💯

[emmajoygreen]

Rythmic little creatures tensing and teasing! You have created a new world of small dictators, written with laws both illicit and incessantly re-created in lives that do what they do as were done long, long ago when they were greater but the few had to mount power and laboured with amoeba to form their oWn artillery.

love the world you have created, the coming and going, as to the ending, how very true - at times!

first stanza begins with and as a lure!

[Soren]

Thanks so much for the read and interpretive comment it is most appreciated Emmajoy