My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille 11 13th June
A writhing urgency
Of milky maggots
Spills from a feeding frenzy
In the depths of decomposition
Metamorphoses
From boring brown cocoons
Into a metaphor
Of obscenely beautiful blowflies
Iridescent and metallic
Buzzing and battling
Against the windowpane
Merging into the inky blackness
Of Beelzebub
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
Image found on www.insect.com
writing in north norfolk 
you should see the huge bees that dance on window panes here 🙂
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I think I prefer bees to blowflies!
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Yes they are indeed horrifically attractive… love how you weaved it into Beelzebub in the end.
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🙂
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loved the slimy, slippery, allusive alliterations
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Thanks for reading and for your comment 🙂
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Gah. Goodness. How can this possibly be such beautiful language about such an icky thing? And yet, it is. So well done, Kim.
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Thanks, De!
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The Lord of the Flies….wonderful job on this icky subject.
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Thanks Toni!
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Ugh, heebie jeebie time. Part of me thinks “how beautiful!” and part of me thinks “yuk!”
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😉
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Yikes–it takes such talent to write beauty about maggots and blow flies!
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Thank you Victoria. I have a thing about insects at the moment after seeing Charlie O’Shields doodlewash of a scorpion.
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So descriptive, I could feel and see the maggots!
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That makes me happy – my job is done!
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To find beauty in ugliness takes a special thoughtfulness…but i still think maggots and flies are a hellish pestilence.
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I agree, Lynn. I’m not a big fan, but I think all insects are fascinating.
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A gorgeous oxymoron of beauty and horror.
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Thanks, Viv!
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Vic said it for me. I prefer dark over dreamy sunshine and flowers. 🙂
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🙂
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I meant Viv! 🙂
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! 🙂 !
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We are so conditioned, we don’t always really look and see.
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