Tree Ant Poems

I am an ant,
I am the gentle pitter-patter on the Earth,
The black dots that trail on your floor,
And that little heartbeat.

I am a cargo ship...

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Late April and only
coltsfoot—Tussilago farfara—breaking leaf litter.
Our daffodils, peonies and crocuses
are also making signs.

April is the cruelest month, I forget why.
A sweet slow Spring
no sudden...

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Once upon a time, 
an ant who had long made his home at the root of a tree 
asked to be assigned to work among...

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In the midst of a quiet summer day, while the sun is peeping
And the gentle breeze brushing everything, dancing and passing
Our hero, an ant, seen...

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One day a skinny pole was wading through the swamp when it happened upon a typhoon resting by a small tree. Oh hello said the...

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I was wondering by a tree,
if the ants worship God? Or they just drived by chemical stimuli in their nervous system
Am I an ant?

She had...

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The Spring sun shines above
but, beneath the willow tree,
sits a spider and an ant
waiting for their friend, the bee.

They always meet up
every sun shiny day,
under...

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There once was a tiny little ant
that was so, so very small
To him, every other single ant
was great big, huge and tall

He tried to help...

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The Ant is small very tiny
yet extraordinarily mighty,
his strength is truly immense.
It would be like a human lifting
a massive tree commenting
"that was a breeze"

A tiny...

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The elephant was walking through the jungle one day
Swinging his trunk, this and that way.
He dragged it along not caring where still
And then he dragged...

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On a hill, by a pond, by a tree, in the woods,
underneath a shining sun, tucked away and overlooked.
There stood a line of ants that...

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