bats
squeaky
night gliders
juicy moths taste
good
good
graveyard
shift workers
clear pesty cloud
skies
skies
speckled
against moon
dark silhouettes
dance
dance
midnight’s
sweet music
in banquet of
life
lanturne form
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Great spooky fun! I love it!
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Thanks, Colleen. Bats have gotten such a bad rap but they’re such beneficial little critters!
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But they’re way better outside than flying in my house in the middle of the night.
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And I’m sure the bats think the same of us humans: they’re better off inside than wreaking chaos in our house. Just kidding, kinda…
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excellent poem Li :-) good work!
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Thank you! Glad you like :)
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Thank you :)
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Fun combination of loop poetry with the lantern form. Yay!
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Thanks, Maria, a new form: Loop Lanturne!
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Graveyard shift workers–exactly! (K)
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:) Thanks, K!
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Thats a celebration of bats! Awesome!
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:) Thank you, Max! I love the little critters — as long as they keep their distance from me.
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We used to have them across our road growing up…we would throw rocks up…NOT at them…but they would dive at the rocks…never bothered us…
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I used to like to be outside at dusk when they start to come out. Now I’m tucked safely in the house by dark.
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You know…they never came near us…even at dark…but they loved those rocks.
Yea I wouldn’t want to take a chance now though.
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They seem like gentle creatures just trying to get by.
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very seasonal and enjoyable! We need to protect our little bat friends.
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Randy, I’m glad you’re a friend to bats :)
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I used to have a bat box but it’s not possible to have one where we live now. They are in trouble as you know, I’m glad there is research going on to help with what I think its called White Nose fungus or something?
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I heard about that. I think there is a colony somewhere in MI that has escaped it and they are trying to figure out why. I hope they do so they can help the little critters. They are so helpless when it comes to humans :(
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Very interesting about that colony in MI. There is a study that was testing bat boxes and it seems they are not the culprits for spreading the disease apparently.
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They carry it themselves. I just read the fungus doesn’t kill them outright, it just makes them wake up in winter and burn their fat stores and they end up starving to death. Makes me sick. Brought in from NY in 2006 per the article I read.
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Sounds horrible! I sorry I didn’t explain that study very well. I should have said that they found that the bat boxes were not a point of transfer. There was concern the boxes could be part of the problem but thankfully it appears not to be the case so far anyway.
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I have 2 bat boxes, but I’ve never seen bats in them. I don’t think they have been put up high enough to the bats’ liking.
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They are particular, when the girls were growing up we’d go lie on the car hood and watch the bats at night. Hard to find that many in one spot in the city now.
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The article I just read said that 90% of the bats in the UP are gone :( That’s effing depressing.
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That’s devastating
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Very effective form Li for your poem. Lovely
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Thank you, Sadje :)
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It’s always a pleasure
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