Insect Poems - Examples of all types of insect poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Why Does a Spider Have Eight Legs?Two of them are for the steering wheel;
To drive unsafely is to be a heel.
One is to make penciled calculations;
To make missteps is to spoil relations.
Two more make amorous advances;
Based on calculations, he...
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Categories:
humor, insect,
Form: Couplet
HE SPREADS THE GENESDrooping petals of ermine white
mark end of winter days.
Then there follows the purple bright
of first saffron displays.
Our world of dismal grey departs
as comes the colour show
to raise the spirit of our hearts
by bringing warming...
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Categories:
animal, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Six DogsSix dogs die
And one guy cries
the dogs are not political
Oh! My, My,
Don’t you know?
Deaths are always political
Be it mosquitoes or a martyr
Someone’s always there to take credit
to call them pest or bravehearts
to declare them something
to...
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Categories:
cry, death, dog, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Tanka XXIIa Red Admiral
in garden's scented grounds
wings open and closed
cherry blossom breezes
blows gate open and closed...
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Categories:
insect,
Form: Tanka
Dawn's Enchanted MeadowYou say you caught a miserable cold, child,
And mother won’t let you play?
“When dawn drifts into enchanted meadows”
Is just the tale for you today!
The silent meadow comes alive at dawn
With the songs of a hundred...
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Categories:
insect, beauty, bird, butterfly, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Bug CollectorBrush off your ant bites.
Blind eye the hornets sting.
Gone so long with ways of violence.
Creatures having done nothing wrong.
But it’s fine “they aren’t important”.
Legs or wings or hair you just can’t bare.
Squash and flush because...
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Categories:
children, cute, happy, insect,
Form: Couplet
The FlyI sat and watched as it continually banged it's head into the window pane, that fly.
My cat sits on the cill and swipes out at the fly as it buzzes around his head,
But he missed...
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Categories:
crazy, emotions, feelings, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Zen
"Zzzzzzz!" goes a bothersome bee up close, yet so
Eerily s t i l l was the meditating Tibetan monk;
Nothing seems to faze him in a trance-like state.
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Categories:
imagery, insect, peace, sound,
Form: Acrostic
The Cicada Rumble - or 1803 plus 13 times 17 equals 2024It's been a long time since the cicadas rumbled.
History books say 'twas eighteen hundred and three
When war struck the trees where bees sometimes bumbled.
The seventeen and thirteen boys couldn't agree.
The horror of those days can't...
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Categories:
humor, insect, math, science,
Form: Rhyme
ArachnidBehold a monster
Intricate wonders within
Weaving fragile threads...
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Categories:
insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Common ButterflyI am the queen of beauty the common butterfly,
I spread my wings and flap away among the trees I fly.
My wings exhibit colours of green yellow and blue,
red, orange and brown
and even...
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Categories:
insect, beautiful, beauty, butterfly, color,
Form: Rhyme
Crown of Creation
Mosquitos beat their wings
Man beats his chest
In order to prove
that he is the best
Mankind maintains he’s
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Categories:
humanity, insect,
Form: Rhyme
FLIESNasty flies are sickening as hell
So, I brought some stuff to repel
They dropped to the floor
And was swept out the door
But I couldn’t get rid of the smell
...
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Categories:
humor, insect,
Form: Limerick
The Beehoney bees emerge
thirst for sweet flower nectar
apple blossom time
...
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Categories:
flower, insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Locusts are Coming
The locusts are coming
They’ll be here soon
Turning all greenery black
Obliterating the moon
Devouring vegetation
Causing aggravation
Raising a...
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Categories:
insect, nature, sound,
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Insect Poems
Definition | What is Insect in Poetry?
Poems Related to Insect
tick, vermin, pest, mite, bee, fly, louse, arachnid, butterfly, gnat, dragonfly, moth, grasshopper, spider, cockroach, termite, ant, mosquito, beetle, flea, fruit fly, aphid, ladybug, cootie, bumblebee, bedbug, arthropod, hornet, daddy longlegs, praying mantis, yellowjacket,