Innocent Millipedes




Please Mr Shootin’ Putin

Do not roll your tanks of destruction

Over the innocent Mr & Mrs Millipede

Millipedes were the earliest animals to breathe air

And make the move from water to land

They date back 428 million years

Now people of the world cannot hold back their tears


Did you know Mr Shootin’ Putin

That Millipedes are fairly timid critters

Docile decomposers that live in the leaf litter

Of forests all over the world!

They aren’t flashy or fast

And they follow the motto

“Slow and steady wins the race”

Millipedes are peaceful

They don’t bite

They can’t sting

And they don’t have pincers to fight back




Please Mr Shootin’ Putin

Do not roll your tanks of destruction

Over the innocence of creation






Ivor Steven (c) March 2022

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

35 thoughts on “Innocent Millipedes”

    1. Here is my Limerick

      Guns And Bombs

      There was a rogue called Putin
      Who liked ‘Guns & Roses’ and shootin’
      He wouldn’t talk to the Poms
      And didn’t like Ukrainian bombs
      When he was in bed with Rasputin

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      1. Spawned in the shadow
        of the Berlin Wall
        behind a cold Iron Curtain
        that KGB Gollum
        also know of Vladimir Putin
        turns the light of freedom
        into the darkness of Mordor
        From Chechnya to Syria
        his minion have inflicted
        the terrible horror of war

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