Ants Doing Yoga

Posted on December 14, 2022 by mitchteemley

CaptureMy Featured Blogger this week is John Malone of a rush of light. John is an Australian poet, as well as a teacher of poetry and creative writing, who frequently delivers brief, whimsical poems like this one to brighten our days.

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22 Responses to Ants Doing Yoga

  1. Rebecca Fegan says:
    December 14, 2022 at 1:20 pm

    They may be going to the museum to look at Ant-iquities. Or maybe they go to hang around with the peas-ants. They go to readings of all the works of John Malone…his Ant-hology. Maybe they head out for the medical seminar where they study Ant-ibodies or Ant-ibiotics . Ant-hropology lectures and field trips into the bush to study the Ant-elope are also popular. They live a very pleas-ant life all unseen by humans. Their yoga studios are underground you see… They don’t like cricket much since crickets always get to the food source faster and leave such a mess. They do enjoy a good picnic though. They might like Joni Mitchell

    I look at Ants from both sides now
    From Way above to Down below.
    Their conversations are so small
    I really don’t know Ants at all.

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  2. Linda Lee Adams/Lady Quixote says:
    December 14, 2022 at 1:20 pm

    Where do ants go? They go to my back yard in the spring time. Every freaking one of them. And they build ant houses and ant highways, ant hills and ant farms, all through the summer, until the end of autumn. Presumably, they winter in Australia. The Great Ant Migration.

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  3. Reaseaorg says:
    December 14, 2022 at 2:06 pm

    Ants are very busy workers. They hand to build their nest and find their food and because they are so physically active they need a lot of food for their size. Also they need to keep 100% compliant with their coworkers to actually achieve the correct end goal. Quite remarkable really. I like the poem about less disciplined versions. Perhaps they have been wiped out by predators …

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  4. C.A. Post says:
    December 14, 2022 at 2:20 pm

    Just for the record, their nicknames come from their physical inspection of each other because ants are blind. Just sayin’. 😎

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  5. An Audience of One says:
    December 14, 2022 at 2:27 pm

    What a fun poem! Thank you for sharing and introducing us to John!

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  6. Nancy Homlitas says:
    December 14, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    Thanks for sharing John’s poem, Mitch. He paints a colorful picture with his words. And I may not know all the places where ants go, but I do know they love my banana cake!

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  7. artsandletters9 says:
    December 14, 2022 at 7:55 pm

    Ants? Imaginative funny. They are amazing creatures. Enjoy the Aussie summer, even the ant- invaded picnics.

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  8. janetdthomas77 says:
    December 14, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    I smiled reading that poem about ants, Mitch – so glad you posted it. I love that 2 ants stopped for a quick chat, that was dead cute. I wonder if ants really do have personalities and unique physical markings of their own? I like to think they do. I can imagine God hand-painting each ant’s face and giving some freckles, some wrinkles or “crooked noses” like in the poem. Maybe for Mo-vember ants grow little beards? Who knows?

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  9. Athousandbitsofpaper says:
    December 15, 2022 at 12:47 am

    I enjoy Johns posts too Mitch, how lovely to see him featured on your blog

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  10. gizmos16201 says:
    December 15, 2022 at 7:32 am

    Thank you, Mr. Teemley for another inspirational post for readers like myself

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  11. sandyroybessandbugzy says:
    December 15, 2022 at 10:04 am

    Ah, I will look at ants more carefully now. “the arched eye brow!”

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