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Insect Poems | Examples of Insect Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for insect.
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member HE SPREADS THE GENES
Drooping 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...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Six Dogs
Six 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...Read the rest...
Categories: cry, death, dog, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tanka XXII
a Red Admiral in garden's scented grounds wings open and closed cherry blossom breezes blows gate open and closed...Read the rest...
Categories: insect,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Dawn's Enchanted Meadow
You 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...Read the rest...
Categories: insect, beauty, bird, butterfly, environment,
Form: Rhyme



Bug Collector
Brush 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...Read the rest...
Categories: children, cute, happy, insect,
Form: Couplet
The Fly
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: crazy, emotions, feelings, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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. ...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, insect, peace, sound,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Cicada Rumble - or 1803 plus 13 times 17 equals 2024
It'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...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect, math, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Arachnid
Behold a monster Intricate wonders within Weaving fragile threads...Read the rest...
Categories: insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Common Butterfly
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: insect, beautiful, beauty, butterfly, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crown of Creation
Mosquitos beat their wings Man beats his chest In order to prove that he is the best Mankind maintains he’s ...Read the rest...
Categories: humanity, insect,
Form: Rhyme
FLIES
Nasty 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 ...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Bee
honey bees emerge thirst for sweet flower nectar apple blossom time ...Read the rest...
Categories: flower, insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: insect, nature, sound,
Form: Couplet

Specific Types of Insect Poems

Definition | What is Insect in Poetry?


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