Best Cockroach Poems

I have a carapace shiny and black,
And when I visit I do more than snack!
I scuttle about in the dead of night,
Never once do I need to use a light.

If I am seen people get a big fright,
Why do they all have to get so...

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All thanks to William Wordsworth, one of our greats

I wandered in my kitchen round
floating high on cocaine broaches
all at once guess what I found
a nest of golden cockroaches 
inside the stove, beside the fridge
singing and dancing on every ridge

Continuous gold in costumes fine
eyes a-twinkling; ...

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I WISH I WEREN’T A COCKROACH
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I wish I weren’t a cockroach, its no fun at all
People stomp on me, if they find me in the hall
I need to hide in gloomy spots, niches n crags
Arriving at your house, at times in grocery bags

I...

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Fruit fly, cockroach, random lie, here we go eternity sis-boom... bye. 
         
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, just like that, I am gone, after living out, like water up the spout it's all days gone bye....

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The honeybee; the maid of flowers:
Selflessly she toils for hours,
filling up her pollen stores---
never grumbling at her chores.

Sips of nectar keep her strong
as she labors all day long,
pollinating field and arbor,
and making honey in her larder.

Humble as her kind may be,
their loss would be a...

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Across the white of table bread and yellow plated cheese
Upon the black fictitious grapes, it wheezes its disease
It crawls, its scrawny legs cluttering the revulsion's sight
Look at this nocturnal insect parading pride in pallid light

And so one, then suddenly a thousand more, and still more
From...

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antennas up down 
                                     walks a very few distance...

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Cockroach Soliloquy 
By:Judge Burdon

The cockroaches left me a wake up message
Written with saliva and excrement 
it was placed conspicuously  in a garbage can 
where they knew that I'd find it 
while in search of my morning nourishment
behind the Burger King on 3rd 
The dumpsters...

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Some cockroaches were flying
On a summer’s night,
One dived straight into my food!...

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Craven Cockroach

Cockroach ugliness, unfair
Nukes cannot kill you
While mere heartbreak buries me...

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Close your eyes and make a wish
Tap your heels three times and say the magic word
And whatever else the fairy tales tell you to do, in order to be happy
In order to be beautiful
In order to be loved
In order to be a hypocrite

The glass slipper...

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I made more than one wish
I stomped my feet and repeated the magic word
I did everything the fairy tales told me to do
In hopes of becoming happy
In hopes of becoming beautiful
In hopes of being loved
I became nothing but a hypocrite

The glass slipper didn’t fit
so I...

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Fruit Fly, Cockroach, Random Lie Fruit fly, cockroach, random lie, here we go eternity sis-boom... bye. 
         
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, just like that, I am gone, after living out, like water up the spout...

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A cockroach can be found on the right side of my screen.
Crawling up and down, it is making quite a scene.
I don’t want to see that repulsive thing anymore.
What happened to the St. Ives woman who was here before?
I think to display that cockroach here...

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Slum

Where hard looks and thin soup oppose,
the spider, cockroach, rat, and mouse dispute
in patient litigation or in border raids
our title to this world. 

There is no mystery, it boils down to food.
Our ruined lunches providing theirs
as Roman baths provided stones
for abbeys of a different creed.

They...

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