Best Bug Poems
Below are the all-time best Bug poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bug poems written by PoetrySoup members
To A June BugMy front porch welcomes your return each year.
Built like a Sherman tank with wings - the night
is filled with music to the springtime ear,
the buzz...
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Categories:
bug, first love, nature, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
DON'T BUG METom went to the ugly bug ball
Strange insects invaded the hall
Folks dressed up as fleas,
Cockroaches and bees
The smile on his face said it all
Tom...
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Categories:
bug, dance, humorous, insect, romance,
Form:
Limerick
Baxter Bug and the Purple OrbBaxter was born in a meadow
under a rotting plank
with hundreds of brothers and sisters
in a home both darkly and dank.
His momma was a June...
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Categories:
bug, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
Devils Deadly DimeDevils deadly dime
The sign said no grown-up at the playground.
Tripping on a penny, like a mime!
My hand is in my pocket with the dime I...
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Categories:
bug, abuse, day, irony, judgement,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Wonderfull WilliamI recognized you in an old photo
taken long before I knew you
You were among the ancient ones
The ones on whom you depended
You were brother, son,...
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Categories:
bug, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Narrative
Spring ClingsSplendiferous skies
Sunflower sunrise
haystacks of lilacs
pastel daisies play
with robins and jays
fragrant grass finds
bunny behinds
cotton lambs coo
earth's lush rebirth
a spring dream
until my
face hits a
clinging
bug filled
web
3/09/21
Poem of the...
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Categories:
bug, animal, insect, nature,
Form:
Diminished Hexaverse
Your Fly Is DownI know
I know
You didn't mean to let me in
And you
Could have crushed me like a bug
Instead you caught me
Softly
Saved me
Trapped me
Ogled me through the glass
A...
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Categories:
bug, break up, insect, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Drink The Kool-AidChug-a-lug, Chug-a-lug –
no matter the fly in our
President's mug, the bug in
his thinking...my reflecting on
his ailing brain, and it's obvious
volume shrinking:
Those mindless, confusing...
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Categories:
bug, christian, evil, leadership, political,
Form:
Free verse
As June's Sun Sets
In the middle of June when the fireflies swoon,
And the warmth of the sun lingers...
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Categories:
bug, appreciation, beauty, childhood, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
To Honor My Hero
To honor my hero.
A wee superhero.
Has shoplifted my heart
...
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Categories:
bug, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cuddling CricketIt’s not enough to have a Dragon plus his penguins and pigeons, too?
Darn it! I had a limit, until a cute Cuddling Cricket found my...
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Categories:
bug, baby, fantasy, funny, growing
Form:
Light Verse
Chantale's Birthday PartyLate to the party we arrived at seven
At least we showed up before eleven
Sweet Ginette, joined us both at the door
A bottle in my hand...
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Categories:
bug, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Couplet
Roses are Red Collab-26These Limericks were written by many different PS poets who are all remaining anonymous. If you would like to add one of your own...
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Categories:
bug, anti bullying,
Form:
Limerick
Tickle TroutIn the cool of the evening he laid there basking
as my fingers touched the gleaming surface of the pool.
Deeper i penetrated till my hand...
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Categories:
bug, adventure, food,
Form:
Narrative
Drawing Blood: Join InThere's a pesky mosquito hoverin' around our ears
If he keeps it up he'll soon be splattered in smears
T-Buzz tries to draw our blood
When he gets...
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Categories:
bug, humorous, insect,
Form:
Limerick
JAN ALLISONI prefer to be called Jan … only my mum calls me Janet
Makes me feel like a naughty child and I am never naughty!
Just started...
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Categories:
bug, me,
Form:
Acrostic
Nothing more than a pretty smile - repostNothing more than a pretty smile - repost
There she was chasing a rabbit
with 1 am coffeecakes and weak tea
She didn’t notice I was watching
from...
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Categories:
bug, adventure, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Leave Me AloneLeave me alone, I yelled to the kitten
The almost adult one that stood on my head
It’s four in the morning and where is it written
That...
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Categories:
bug, animal, appreciation, love, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
Butterfly dream
"I dreamt, I was a butterfly or was I,
a butterfly dreaming . . ."
But I was only the cocoon grub,
attached to...
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Categories:
bug, adventurebutterfly,
Form:
Rhyme
WishesWish I was a snake slithering in the grass
or a big black spider on a pane of glass
Or a cobweb...
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Categories:
bug, girl,
Form:
Rhyme
Shades of green
Emerald green that shines on
gleaming green jewel bug
Algae green of the serene pond
And there swim the shoveler ducks
Harlequin green from areca leaves pinnate
Softly grins when...
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Categories:
bug, earth, green, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
Corona virus
Corona virus sent to try us
Unnerve Confuse deplete divide us
It comes to scare it comes to kill
The vulnerable the...
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Categories:
bug, death,
Form:
Free verse
Suicidal HumanityOur supposed modern scientific genius
May in fact just be our last fatal weakness.
This technological house of cards we've made
Left humanity walking along the edge of...
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Categories:
bug, angst, business, earth, environment,
Form:
Couplet
Zoo's WhoPaula parrot is my name. I'm from the wild, but now I'm tame
A chatterbox who likes to talk!
Have news to share? Let's take a...
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Categories:
bug, animal,
Form:
Personification
Sweet Little LadyMany insects creep upon this earth,
and hardly anyone refers to them as “nice”
or writes a poem reflecting on their worth!
Spiders sometimes make me jump as...
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Categories:
bug, cute, insect,
Form:
Rhyme