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Insect Poems | Examples of Insect Poetry

Premium Member NECTAR SAVOUR-
gentle bee lights feeds beside me as I am sighting colorful floral ~ aromatic bud enters flower and just sucks the tasty nectar 07/14/25 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025© ...

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Categories: insect, addiction, deep, engagement, food,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member brown
Categories: food, insect,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Misty Childhood Vision
By calm childhood's brook, shafts of brash, slanting light shone through a dewy mist. From a stone, there I spied, descending from a thread, dawn's angel from the dark....

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Categories: insect, angel, childhood, day, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vision
by the spring, in the mist a spider string, dew kissed I saw from my stone chair on its end suspended an angel descended gone with a puff of air ...

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Categories: angel, insect,
Form: Verse
Compassion for all Living Creatures
But not the interminably hopeless daddy longlegs some say cellar spiders also know as the cranefly lurking amidst the shower curtain then flapping wildly all around my hat just not first thing on a Monday morning when stark staring and uncoffeed thus it must be duly despatched with an implement humanely and meanwhile the water's spraying in all directions Later on leaving my nosy neighbour...

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Categories: flying, insect, morning,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Japanese Beetles
Don’t be fooled, they carry nothing of the Orient’s allure. These voracious beetles, if they had the appetite, might easily bring down the loftiest sequoia. Depraved sexual deviants, they deflower helpless roses in broad daylight; and, like Medieval artisans of yore turn hardy zinnias into empty-ribbed cathedral windows. Their shells are hard like scarabs, but charmless, slicked with an iridescence cheap and tacky like carnival glass. Eager...

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Categories: insect,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member whirlpool
Categories: insect, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Firefly and the Tiny Flea
The firefly said to the tiny flea ‘What good you do I cannot see You lose your way in a plush rug or carpet’ The flea said, ‘Perhaps… Maybe ~ ...

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Categories: giggle, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Cologne of Love
A green orchid bee makes cologne to excite babe: A fragrance of Love...

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Categories: flower, insect, sweet love,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Silkworm
Visions Of A Vignette Contest by Nette Onclaud, date written: 06-22 silkworm comes from an egg of a silk moth then it is a larvae with an enormous hunger hatched to die ...

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Categories: insect,
Form: Verse
Random Thoughts 5: Ants
Does God mourn for every ant that was crushed before it was able to carry its own weight?...

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Categories: animal, god, insect,
Form: Free verse
Cockroaches
I saw them in the corner Like brain pieces on the wall, Climbing to my ceiling, Loud and stinking with blood. I can hear them crawling Inside my moldy walls, Slow and steady Like the movement of organs....

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Categories: dark, insect, stress,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterflies And Bees
butterflies and bees pollinating the flowers spreading new beauty ...

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Categories: beautiful, butterfly, flower, insect,
Form: Haiku
Fruit Jar Fireflies
I see words, and they see me It’s true they are sentient, quite But they will never see the light of my world through my loins They keep floating by, ever speaking never ceasing like tinnitus in my transcendent sight Like orphans from somewhere never Their little fingers grope as they look at me squarely Speaking barely, “bring me...

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Categories: insect, allegory, beauty, creation, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nobody Shows Bogongs The Way
headstrong Bogong moths find their mountains far away ~ star gazing gurus...

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Categories: butterfly, insect, motivation,
Form: Haiku

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