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Best Moth Poems

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Premium Member The Moth
A lone moth flits around my front porch light
as wind blows through my window, luring me
to step outside into black velvet’s night.

I search the sky,...

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Categories: moth, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Like a Moth To a Flame
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As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece...

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Categories: moth, abuse, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Mystical Lore of the Moonlight Moth
Mystical amour of moonlight moth's whimsical lure,
a glowing flame in sensual saffron gold attire;
restless tease with every breeze, gilt-cavorting contour,
pale green fluttering, her wings stirring...

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Categories: moth, allegory, desire, fire, hurt,
Form: Rhyme



Moth
"Moth" 

The night shivers out
Hymns upon lonely gray wings 
They drift like a sigh...

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Categories: moth, dream,
Form: Haiku
A Moth Meets Devastation
I was reading in my study
On my desk a moth lay stunned,
It had flew into my lamp,   
I fear 'tis moribund.

It had fluttered...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moth, death, hope, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Message of the Moth
Enticed to the light on the top porch, you hover...
Moon child of the night, do you look for a lover?

Oh little moth, it's you and...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moth, angst, longing,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Moth
The moon shines brightly on my wooden porch,
as shadows dance from trees swayed by the breeze.
Alone, I sit beneath the glowing torch-
shaped light, relaxed, and...

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Categories: moth, inspiration, mystery,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Butterfly and the Moth
There was a little caterpillar on a limb
she felt disgusting, ugly and all alone 
A moth came by and said”why so grim?”
She replied and said”...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moth, butterfly, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
Moth and Flame
You the animated pyre
forging a lustful fire
I flee from the darkness
that freezes my life
embracing this moment of death desire...

I am endlessly drawn
to you like a...

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Categories: moth, desire, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Moth To Flame
Through the full of moonlit night
Succumbs a moth to every light
And powder keg wings beat white satin 
Serenade in frolic amidst temptations often
Desperation outside upon...

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Categories: moth, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Suicidal Moth
Once there was a moth that flew up to Doctor John
He said I'm depressed, I'm a suicidal one"
 Doc John said, "I'm no shrink," 
"Why...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moth, character, crazy, depression, humor,
Form: Limerick
Hot Pepper Moth
Oh hot pepper how you call to me, I stare at you with anxiety, I love you so but you torture me, but yet I...

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Categories: moth, humor,
Form:
The Moth
I sat
Dwindling in the all-consuming heat
When a sudden fluttering
Landed upon my knee.

Frantic moth
Gray and white
Took refuge from
The aggressive black ants
Scurrying and ripping at
It's fragile wings.

Full...

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Categories: moth, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moth
Mirage of gauzy wings,
Makes a path near gold flames.

Mesmerized... it prances
Mystically around
Moonlit torch: the lure of
Magic casts quick danger...
Marking butterfly's end.



4/22/2017
Pleiades M Contest for Kim...

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Categories: moth, butterfly, fire,
Form: Verse
The Flowers of Evil
A dusk, a glazed verandah, it's just rained,
a smell of lilac, earthworms and wet earth,
an awkward silence - the confusion chained
my tongue: “What if she’ll...

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Categories: moth, death, love,
Form: Rhyme

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