Best Arthropod Poems

Once there was a youthful, bubbly butterfly.
Who loved to fly under the sunlit azure sky.
        Colors of joy reflected from her iridescent wings
        as she fluttered in the breeze to dance...

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Where is the butterfly
and where does it go in the wintertime
Fly away, flies the butterfly
As the snowflakes come falling down
Do the crystal white drops of dew
Fall, frighten and freeze you
Come true, come here be near
my ladybug arthropod
my dragonfly
as a kiss as in nervousness, a lady
trepidation...

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Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).

nevertheless he suffers existential blight
covered head to toe
in black and blue bruises
linkedin wherein
yours truly (himself) did self flagellate,
less for religious reasons,
than cuz...

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Now, unlike my usually trenchant literary librettos, i regale the unknown (tum me) reader for savoir faire articulation, elocution, and indomitable tour de force proffered by spectrum of bounteous expropriated hegemony rightful to Mother Nature. 
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A Place Revisited Within The Mind
(an illusory escape during dead...

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The thing that went...

The first thing that went wrong - 
was the buzzing in my left ear,
the one not buried in the pillow,
the one that was open to the world.

The second thing that went wrong
was that dream I was having,
you know, the one where I'm...

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I WISH I WEREN’T A CENTIPEDE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS




I wish I weren’t a centipede, a lowly arthropod
I need a transformation into something much more mod
To obtain status, with a much higher species standing
Not be straddled with an enervating task so demanding
I get no praise for my...

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pulverized bodies
of cochineal insects..
uuuummm cherry yogurt's good  

Dannon Yogurt's flavors
strawberry, cherry, 
boysenberry, rasberry 
Contain(or did contain)
Carmine food dye
made from Cochineal Insects
an arthropod native to 
Mexico and South America..
Don't that take the cake..
Some people have had
bad reactions to it also.....

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there's a spider in my great-room
high up near the apex of the ceiling
hanging from the whitewashed wall
a spindly one, like a leggy daddy
but surely of the arachnid order

it is now early spring and this 
patient arthropod has been there
since late last autumn, 
five to eight...

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True earth 
crowded with the familiar facial form:
chalked on concrete
crayoned by children, 
squirted on birthday cakes, 
in camera with teeth all whitened, 
portraited, imitated, formulated. 

We don't wake up 
until we see it. 
We plaster it on 
birds or cats or pigs. 
We laugh and...

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Everything the power does it does in a circle

It's just like when the amphibian carried the arthropod across the river,
the scorpion couldn't help himself when he stung brother frog,
and I can't help myself when I go to the ATM and push two asians out of...

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rainbow circle sky
blues greens yellows orange
a dew prism light

rose redolence
lily scent countryside dew
springtime perfume cue

fireflies in flight
bioluminescence bright
a seasonal light

bug process honey
pollen flyers yearn nectar 
flowers turned sweet fruits

bees labor party
pears peaches pineapples
flower foods eaten

aquarium seas
whales snappers sharks dolphins 
ride wave vehicles

sky ring of fire
huge...

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winged ballerina
arthropod flight
orange wings has eyes...

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Crustacean Is An Anthropod

A crustacean is really  an arthropod,
Who we found out was made by God;
Is immune,
To sand dune,
And never modified to place in sod.

Jim Horn...

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winged ballerina
delicate arthropod flight
orange wings has eyes

flight signals low height
bioluminescence bright
nature fly lights night

feather wings rapid
aeronautical mini
hovering fowl fuels

bird pure white
state of eloquence defined
beautifies pond

fowl soars then dive
pink on white emblems seen
long neck bird catch fish...

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Praying mantises, those arthropod thugs,
prey upon other, unfortunate, bugs,
"But who prays for the praying mantis?", I ask, 
"And what lurks behind that killer's mask?"

After the males have fulfilled their function,
the females seem to lack compunction,
practicing sexual cannibalism, they say, 
enjoying a nice meal after a...

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