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Honeygloom's avatar

Love the middle line, so fragile.

It seems very simple to avoid ticks though, I was surprised at the Lyme disease rate last year.

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Lone Star tick waits on bent grass

Lover’s lips kiss and attach

A last swollen fate

Allergy to meat means death.

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Honeygloom's avatar

“A last swollen fate” is such a great line🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Started out small, ballooned with blood

to the size of a football, a beachball, then an airbed.

Host body shrunk to skin, flapping in the breeze.

Uptick.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh man. That is an image I will not soon forget. (But also can you imagine? Would be kind of cool to see)

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Real images of dessicated corpses show them still with bones, teeth etc present, so not exactly flapping in the wind. Very light though.

As for engorged ticks, if you really want to see that nightmare search that term, but of course disgusting as they are real ones only get to be about 10mm maximum. That's why I was imagining the "uptick", a massive monstrous version of the same.

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Ika Wright's avatar

Ah a most annoying insect amongst the many summer fiends. Nice prompt and Haiku Honeygloom

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Honeygloom's avatar

Thank you!!

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

When I said “bite me”

It wasn’t the literal.

Arachnid, you suck.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love this!! Very funny and I love the puns🖤

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Jon T's avatar

found tick in my scalp

mom tweezed it out and placed on

element red hot

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ow 🤕 Did your hair grow back?

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Jon T's avatar

Still waiting

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Honeygloom's avatar

It’s good to have hope. And Dr. Germlin’s Hypo Hair Tonic, the only transdermal hair tonic on the market formulated with Bigfoot grease.

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Jon T's avatar

I dont know. Last time i went anywhere near Bigfoot grease, I’d been flirting with a lumberjack at Dawsons Roadhouse. Five to fifteen beers in. And this large lady bashes in to the place sayin I’m trying to steal her man. This woman was crazy scary. So I took off and started running into the back 40 but she’s hot on my heels then all of a sudden swoop smash I’m on my ass must’ve slipped in some Sasquatch scat. Then she piles on and doesn’t let me go until I say, sistermotherauntieuncle.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Also the name of a fictional superhero who acts weirdly all of the time.

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Honeygloom's avatar

THE TICK!! And Arthur! I loved that show😊Spoooon!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Tiny hidden bite

Underneath the summer shade—

A tick’s stealthy touch.

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Silent seconds pass

Echoes in the still night air—

Heartbeats tick away.

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Time’s relentless march

Ticking clocks, a constant hum—

Moments slip like sand.

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Tick of autumn leaves

Falling in the crisp, cold breeze—

Seasons change once more.

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love what you did with this!!

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Leigh Parrish's avatar

I'm ready for my

Closeup! Aren't I sexy as

I gorge on your blood?

(Based on this very unsettling picture)

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Honeygloom's avatar

It is very gross😬 I even got a lecture from Scoot😂

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Haha! That is an amazing picture, for sure. I had no idea the sack on the back got that big... 😎

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

The residents of the planet Arach are of the spider kind. My story in my latest book tells their story. And how they have targeted Earth as their new home. Bwahaha!

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! Little do they know, we’re destroying it😅

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Suck on and suck deep

Draw our essence from our veins

Beware its strange curse

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love this, such a weird little tale it could be spun into🖤

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Hmm… gotta keep that in mind. Bwahaha!

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

There are some people,

Who say bites are compliments,

They mean you taste good... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

My granny always said, “compliments should not come with Lyme disease attached.”

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Haha! 😎👍

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

The fear of Lyme bites…

…into waiflike mottled veins

Injects fear in brains

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Ticks are everywhere

From plains, forests , and sand beaches .

But in lakes and streams

Bloodsucker leeches take their place.

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