How high can you fly,
clingy black flies?
20 metres,
30 metres,
40 metres high?
Even here
at 50
still you multiply.
in nose,
ears, eyes.
Were you on the moon
when the astronauts
came by?
Are you
in Purgatory
picking at our styes?
Is there anywhere
you’re not,
clingy black flies?
- pic courtesy of Pexels.com by Matej Cerkez
- from a draft in my commonplace book from December 2006
John Malone 
Brilliant. And so true. I know the exact flies you mean.
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thanks, Worms: on the Otway Fly, Victoria —
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I think I have been there… many years ago.
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it’s a beautiful area but the treetop walk is a bit of a trial in summer 😦 okay if you’re paying penance for your sins 🙂
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From memory we were there in late April. It was quite pleasant. Mr Worms was particularly taken with the lighthouse. In fact we stayed right near the lighthouse. And we had a helicopter flight over the 12 Apostles. Those were our care free days. LOL
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ahh yes; in my notes to the draft there are references to the lighthouse; a helicopter flight over the 12 Apostles would have been awesome —
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It was. I think it’s the only time I’ve been in a helicopter.
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I wonder (on a side track) if the 12 Apostles have an Aboriginal name that will soon be adopted like Uluru and Kata Tjuta. I must google.
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Not that I can find. But George Bass called them The Sow and the Piglets which is rather sweet. 🙂
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yes, that’s good too; all those names could sit beside each other, colorful and apt and I am sure the aboriginal name would be as poetic: it is such a rich language; I wish I had learnt it or a branch of it — there are so many — instead of silly old Latin 🙂
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I hope the aboriginal name sits alongside the current one rather than replace it: ‘The 12 Apostles’ is such an apt, poetic name —
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They are relentless and brutal
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those few words pretty well nail it 🙂 thanks beth
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You nailed it. Those dam flies are the worst.
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thanks, Bob: I would like to nail those flies LITERALLY 🙂
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Persistent little buggers, but at least they’re quick to die. True that the underworld must be covered with them.
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a good incentive for staying out of Purgatory then 🙂
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Yeah
, best not to fence sit. Heaven or he’ll it is. 😉
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not a hard choice then ? I hope there is a rock ‘n’ roll heaven like the Righteous Brothers painted; sure be one hell of a place 🙂 Hey! Hey! St Peter ….
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These sound like the ones in France that come with the harvest and humid weather. Tiny little things that creep all over you in their hundreds. Over there, they are called betes d’orage (beasts of the storm). They make you itch like crazy and get into everything.
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what was God thinking when he created those annoying little buggers 🙂 does God have an Id? perhaps they’re a product of that?
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😂 She obviously has a good sense of humour!
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I know that houseflies can be quite a pain. So clingy and always buzzing around. A very creative way of expressing your disdain for the black flies. They sound scary. Witty and painful. 🙂
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annoying buggers 😀
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🙂 you know something, Eden; I’ve read poems praising almost every creature but I have no come across one praising flies; someday, some contrary poet will have a go at it 🙂
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they certainly don’t go out of their way to endear themselves to anyone 🙂
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I think they were at the moon. I heard there was a Buzz.
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LOL. how do you come up with these zingers, Ulle 🙂
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Well John, I too dislike flies as much as you do! They simply don’t leave you alone!
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thanks; there’s not too many good things you can say about flies 🙂
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