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Centipede Scare

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) .

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Date: 5/19/2015 3:18:00 PM
A stunning piece dear S. Zeynub of a rare quality as the subject matter is no more than a centipede,as these creatures are capable to harm as their counterparts on earth. I confess,though a bit strange as a muse,you captured the essence of witnessing this venomous creature.
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Date: 5/15/2015 2:10:00 PM
Enjoyed your journey with this creature with so many legs. I seen them before but never bother to research. I didn't know they were venomous, a 7 hugs
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Date: 5/14/2015 6:42:00 PM
It's strange how we are terrified of things that are much smaller than us. I see those centipedes often and they always make me jump! ...A great poem here. Very interesting and entertaining!
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Date: 5/13/2015 11:33:00 AM
Haha, witty story telling.
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Date: 5/13/2015 7:01:00 AM
I have had encounters with these creatures too. Amazing how fast and how quickly they can change directions. You have educated me on many things I didn't know. Thank you for sharing, my friend. Elaine
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Date: 5/12/2015 11:39:00 AM
I loved how you vilified the centipede by calling it an insectivore which is a word that makes it feel large..as scary and harry as this was, it made fore a very fun read.! ~Jan
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Date: 5/11/2015 9:22:00 PM
You have a very scary poem here! Well written. Nice job!
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Date: 5/11/2015 4:30:00 AM
Thank you for your kind words. Love your write, it kept me intrigue to the very end. #7
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