Best June Bug Poems

My 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 and clatter of your noisy flight. 
Announcing to the world it now is June,
you fly into our lives and cast your spell,
reminding us that summer beckons soon -
sweet season of...

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New June bug day risin 
Pancake fryin smell 
Outside yo window 
To the kitchen down below
Curtains blowin in the breeze, 
Leaves on treetops swayin
All I’m sayin is 
What comes a day 
Bein born
Is all you need 
When you a child 
In this big old world
Gots love and love and 
Mama’s love some mo

Don’t matter bout...

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June Bug, do you remember me?
Understand, I'm older now, you see.
No longer do I visit Grandpa with my brothers.
Every fourth of July, you too, came with many others.
Both of us came to play - beneath the fireworks display.
United again, I recall you never flew so well.
Give us another fourth, and we will give 'em hell....

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A june bug, flying at night, races to a window light
To the greens behind the sill, fleeing from the twilight's chill
But alas! The window is shut—no rest to find in this glass hut 
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father-san said no
to my succulent June bug
who wrote me love songs
we harmonise together
under the swinging lanterns
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with the monsoon rains,
a green June bug came whirring,
to our living room~
my smart cat after playing,
gulped down this hapless victim. 
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My little cousin, Junior, lost his mom when she was only 39 and he was 9. It was such a devastating time for him – her pet name for Junior was “June Bug”


Junior had a beautiful mom
Unlike any other
Never knew a heart so calm
Ever the amazing mother!

Blessed by her light, her sacrifice
Unending grace beyond a...

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Flying crazed into the summer night
Diving, crashing — what a sight!
The people, they shriek; 
Cover they seek,
Slapped in the face by one’s flight. 
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