Branching out

So I was thinking about another haiku, but thought, "Why not get adventurous?" The picture my wife inserted below notwithstanding, in general I have been fairly conservative in my blogging. So tonight, I'm branching out. I'm going to attemp a Septolet. A septolet, you ask, "What is that?" Well, I'll tell you:
The Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen words with a break in between the two parts. Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture.

So here goes. My first ever attempt at a Septolet:

Buzzing
Fiercly biting
Causing itchy pain

Mosquito armies
attack relentlessly;
my porch
the battleground.

And now, my own invention, a monolet:

Was that a racoon that just ran across my driveway or are the rats getting bigger?