Mozzie

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Sue Vincent

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I am a small mosquito
And my task is not the best…
To be a nuisance all my life
And be a perfect pest.

It isn’t really all my fault
When deep within the night
You wake to find I had a snack
And left a nasty bite.

I need the stuff that’s in your blood
I have none of my own…
That’s just the way that I was made
And so the seed was sown.

I am the perfect predator
No tiger bite can beat
The stealth attack that gets to feed
Yet leaves you on your feet.

I’m made by Mother Nature,
Working to her own design…
So when you try to squash me flat,
Recall…the fault’s not mine.

I can’t turn vegetarian,
That’s not the way I’m made,
A mozzie needs her sustenance,
The Piper must be paid.

We may surpass our natures,
But we can’t be what we’re not…
The rules of our existence
Are the only ones we’ve got.

So judge me not too harshly,
When you hear that whining buzz…
I am just obeying Nature
Doing what a mozzie does.

About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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52 Responses to Mozzie

  1. Ritu says:
    June 12, 2017 at 12:12

    They’re nothing here… not like the Kenya or India ones!!!

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  2. willowdot21 says:
    June 12, 2017 at 12:26

    I love this poem Sue, and those Mozzies love me!!

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  3. quiall says:
    June 12, 2017 at 12:58

    hahaha Loved it!

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  4. Miriam says:
    June 12, 2017 at 13:45

    Love it! Your poem mind you, not the actual subject. 🙂

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  6. besonian says:
    June 12, 2017 at 14:25

    You do that sort of stuff so well, Sue. It’s so easy flowing and on the face of it, deceptively simple. But in fact, you have to have a real instinctive feel for the flow and cadence of words to do it as well as that. Great.

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  7. davidprosser says:
    June 12, 2017 at 14:31

    Well done Sue.i’m glad it wasn’t one of those from Africa or India.
    xxx Huge Hugs xxx

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  8. Jean Reiland says:
    June 12, 2017 at 14:31

    Reblogged this on 307.

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  9. philosophermouseofthehedge says:
    June 12, 2017 at 15:14

    Perfect predator is right! A poem as cute as a bug

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  11. rohini99 says:
    June 12, 2017 at 15:40

    Reblogged this on FictionPals and commented:
    My kind of fun poem! Reminds me of my 🦑 squid!

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  12. rohini99 says:
    June 12, 2017 at 15:40

    Thoroughly enjoyed it!

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  13. robbiesinspiration says:
    June 12, 2017 at 18:23

    A most amusing poem, Sue.

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  14. watchingthedaisies says:
    June 12, 2017 at 18:29

    A wonderful tribute to a monster biter. 😉

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  15. annabellefranklinauthor says:
    June 12, 2017 at 19:05

    I’ve plenty of blood, Mr Mozzie, and I’d be happy to spare you a drop – but do you have to leave a horrendous itching lump in return? It’s like me going into the supermarket and paying for my food with a slap in the face! 😉

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  16. Eliza Waters says:
    June 12, 2017 at 20:19

    🙂 That’s one take I don’t usually consider! 🙂

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  17. Mary Smith says:
    June 12, 2017 at 23:11

    Love the poem but not the mozzies – and definitely not the midges which were out in force here tonight.

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  19. Widdershins says:
    June 13, 2017 at 20:24

    SPLAT! … that’s my nature too. To be fair though, I do give them all a verbal warning as I head outside. 🙂

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  20. patriciaruthsusan says:
    June 14, 2017 at 14:18

    Ha, ha. This was great, Sue. I still have little sympathy, though. 😀 — Suzanne

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