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Category: Formicid Form
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! Falling in the Presence of Ants (1982) By Gary Soto We live to some purpose, daughter. Across the park, among The trees that give the eye Something…
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If you are reading this sentence, it is more likely than not that you’re aware of our Sunday poetry series, Formicid Form. Yet this series may be a little too mainstream for your tastes, and you may desire something more creative. Is that so? Then check out this step-by-step guide on how to get leaf-cutter…
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! Poem in Haiku Poetry (1968) By J.W. Hackett The ants on this cloth are even carrying off their own casualties.
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! El Hormiguero (2010) Song by Calle 13, English translation here The ants have arrived here, We are conquering enemy territories, Invisible, silent, and simultaneous, The entire invasion is…
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! The Ant (1902-1971) By Ogden Nash The ant has made herself illustrious By constant industry industrious So what? Would you be calm and placid If you were…
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. This week’s poem was sent to us by philosopher Larisa Svirsky. Enjoy! The Carpenter Ant (2013) By Terrance Hayes It was when or because she became two kinds…
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! The Ants (1793-1864) By John Clare What wonder strikes the curious, while he views The black ant’s city, by a rotten tree, Or woodland bank! In ignorance…
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It’s hard to believe it, but it’s true. What started out one year ago from yesterday as a podunk formicid-friendly online media project with an inaugural post on loving your house ants has grown into a podunk formicid-friendly online media project with 196 published articles. Whether you’re joining us now for the first time, or have…
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! Be Beautiful, Noble, Like the Antique Ant (1908-1997) By Jose Garcia Villa Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant, Who bore the storms as he* bore the…
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, will provide a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! Also, contribute to our ongoing GoFundMe campaign to bring classic ant tunes to life, and support music therapy! Departmental: The End of My Ant Jerry (1936)…
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The Daily Ant recently launched “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our new Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, will provide a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! Also, contribute to our ongoing GoFundMe campaign to bring classic ant tunes to life! I Light the House on Fire and Lie Down (2015)…
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The Daily Ant has launched “Formicid Form“, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our new Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, will provide a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto (1943) By Czesław Miłosz, recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. Bees build around red liver, Ants…
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