Best Katydid Poems

A katydid stopped at my door.
Wedge of green gossamer
But something more.

I angled to get a closer look.
Intrusive I fear was I.
He quickly me forsook.

Off to call at another door
Winged wisp of wonder
On a neighborly autumn tour....

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Somehow you flew in and hid
Right under my toilet lid
Ouite sure you were dead
'Little pest!' I said
Pity the poor Katydid!

Saw a leg twitch, God forbid
Guess what I done-gone-and-did?
'Okay, my green lass
Go die in the grass'
Pity the poor Katydid!

*** Katydids are harmless bright green insects with...

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Katydid's musical cadence
.                      Wafting through the window, drumming my soul....

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The warm hour after sunset in summer
Has long passed
So fast from these trees

In between
Just before the first freeze

Katydid clicks with half her strength
In the not-quite-right October sunshine
Violin swaddled to knee

Easy to miss her music
In the cold roar of autumn wind

Yet the surprise mercy of sun...

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