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Daniel Baldwin's avatar

The first little bite

Itches, the second scratches.

The millionth cracks bone.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Yay! I was hoping I’d hook you for this one. Love how brutal you went, these locusts do not mess around🖤

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Ken Flyingheart's avatar

Air reverberates

Our fiddle strings played red hot

Melody a plague

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo I love this! There’s either a whole story here, or there’s a diabolical description of locusts. Really well done🖤

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MS Rivera's avatar

Eyes shut as they fly

Up your nose and down your throat

To eat your insides

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh man that is a horrible image! I absolutely love it🖤

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Hunger drives us on

Fly, fly and seek the next feast

Satiation nears

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love the ominous feeling kind of leading into hope of an end. Very cool🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

I am many, I am legion, I am a cloud,

I am hunger. Zero sum -

my satisfaction your starvation

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Honeygloom's avatar

So so good. The repetition is very hive mind and builds to a terrifying last line🖤

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Thea Wood's avatar

Love this.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Thanks Thea!

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Dried-out crunchable

Your spindle legs form toothpicks

Two can play this game

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Honeygloom's avatar

Very reasonable! Eat the thing that ate your crops, I like this plan🖤

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Caro Henry's avatar

Indeed!

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Seven years back, I performed in an immersive launch of Resident Evil VII - two weeks of (slowly) chasing gamers with blunt objects and eating dried locusts. Fun days.

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Carolyn Jones's avatar

Famished plague descends

An insatiable hunger

A devouring swarm.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Very epic! I love how you make the swarm feel so immense in such a small amount of space🖤

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beth x's avatar

a terrible din

plays like hissing in my ears

miniature demons

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo love this sensory experience, gave me chills🖤

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Daniel Baldwin's avatar

Great image! And you know I love those piranhas of the sky

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Honeygloom's avatar

I was happy I found actual art! I’m so glad you submitted today🖤

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Thea Wood's avatar

Rosin up your bows

Our symphony crescendos

Destruction descends

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love this! The crescendo and then the descent, very cool take🖤

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Thea Wood's avatar

Prepare, ye sinners

God and Mother Nature’s plague

Feasts on the wicked

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oof what a way to die😬 Love how you have God and Mom Nature teaming up, quite a terrifying duo🖤

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Dante’s Inferno, gluttony’s bolus chewed,

Devour cousins unknown metamorphous.

Pharaohs armies, Godzilla, King Kong

Throngs unleashed on endorphins call to die.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Epic ride! Well done!

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Caro Henry's avatar

Yeah, let’s turn the tables.

Eat or be eaten

Air fryer crackles and crisps

Sweet honey dipping

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Honeygloom's avatar

You know, you make them sound pretty appetizing actually…

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Matthew Brady's avatar

The bugs are massive

The swarm grows ever larger

I feel so so small

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh nice take! I love the perspective shift🖤

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

They moved like a cloud,

Raining death, gorging themselves,

Till nothing was left... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Greedy beasts! Love the finality of the last line🖤

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Thanks! There's speculation it may have been an eating contest for insects that got out of hand! Haha... 😎

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