who am I?
life is always busy
work never stops
we allocate teams
for specialist jobs
some are engineers
more in the planning process
some fetch food
while others defend
team effort pays off
as we have safe homes
and ready access to picnics
as we forage for the best
some are larger
but mostly we are small
and black, hard work
won’t break our back
follow the trail by smell
time to greet one another
as we trek about our business
complete in our synchronised world
d’Verse, Creepies and Crawlies, Sarah
and my previous one on dragonflies
aroused 
Very interesting 🙂
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Wonderful Poem Kate.. Describing the behavior as of humans by means of ants
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Good one.. Ants are such “busy bees”. LOL.
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Ha ha, this is very clever and interesting Kate 🙂
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i love safari ants
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Wonderful poem, Kate. I love the way you describe their behaviour, planning and execution.
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i love your poem on ants Kate, now i am looking at them carefully working here underneath my table…lol
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None so organized as a colony of ants!
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An ant colony is simply amazing! They possess human-like qualities in their everyday journey. Can man learn from an army of ants?
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Amazing strength of the collective
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Well done, Kate! Ants can be annoying sometimes, but you have to admire their industry and sense of community.
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Great and awesome poem on Ants. They are the most dexterious and busy beings and very meticulous in whatever they do. A wonderful analogy, Kate.
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I love your poem, Kate, as it describes so well the social life of the ants ..
When will you post about the bees ?
Love ❤
Michel
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The sun will be soon higher in Australia and the bees will visit non stop the flowers.
I remember being on the mud of an estuary near Amiens and I was in a population of Asters with a cloud of bees flyng and foraging -(in 1963, for a thesis about the plants in that special place !!!! )
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I like the analogy, it’s almost like it was designed that way eh? 🙂
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An apt description, Kate 🙂 I also enjoyed the visual way your font resembled little black worker ants all working together in ordered fashion – very clever! 🙂
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Ha ha, brilliant! How very fitting. I honestly thought it was clever attention to detail👌Nice one!
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An apt description, sis! You depicted their traits perfectly.
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Those short, clipped phrases of though are perfect for ants!
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Clever, Kate. I didn’t realise the subject was ants until part-way through.
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They are very hardworking and organized indeed. Great take, Kate 😀
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I love how this could read as easily about humans as ants, if we take a global perspective. Although we need to learn a few things about working together for the good of everyone!
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Fantastically creative, Kate. I enjoyed it much!
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Great poem Kate… Ants have many admirable qualities… but are detestable when the get in the house.
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Ants do tend to travel in groups…I’ve had many a kitchen invasion. (K)
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Nice one! I wrote an ant inspired poem eons ago. I wonder if I can even find it? It might have been lost in the flash drive crash… Anyway you have captured the industrious nature of ants superbly.
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I had to avoid some little critters on my path this morning .. I’m always taking pic’s … it’s the small things that matter in our world
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ants are awesome. My son has a book about them. Such team players! 😀 But seriously, such amazing communities.
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BrilliANT, Kate! 😉 🙂 Love this poem! 🐜
It’s always a joy to watch ants work… 🐜 as long as they are working outside and not in the kitchen. 🐜 HA! 😀 Ants are busy, hard workers… 🐜 but they always find time to go to a picnic! 😉 🐜 A reminder to us Human-Beans to work hard AND play hard! 😉 🐜
(((HUGS)))
🐜 🐜 🐜
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Kate,
The pacing and the meter mimic perfectly their clockwork “synchronised” motions.
pax,
dora
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Ants are team players. Even when one dies, the others carry it back to the nest as food. I like watching them outside, but again, do not like them when they invade the house.
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My favourite insect, love it Kate. Fun and informative. 🙂
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I often think of Patrick White’s careful analysis of ants in one of his books 🙂
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Love this Kate! 🙂 xoxo
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These are amazing little armies…industrious and organized beyond belief! (Always very social at picnics…)
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Fun description of an ant colony! They really are quite the engineers!
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