Deilephila
...elephant hawk moth
Deilephila elpenor
howling pink color...
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Categories:
hawk moth, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Deaths Head Hawk Moth
...what is that? I asked, fascinated.
It looks like a moth with a skull painted on it.
I thought she had painted it.
As it flew off I saw othrer moths
They all had skulls.
I was fascinated.
If...
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Categories:
hawk moth, animal,
Form: Free verse
The Moth I Left Behind
...I love you Broad-boarded Bee-Moth
I’m delighted by your transparent wings,
‘diaphanous’ some say.
I love your jerky jiggly flight by day
as you flitter from leaf to leaf.
Some say you flutter,...
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Categories:
hawk moth, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wings of Hell
...[This is based on a true story from some years ago…
Some elaboration involved… oh… and nothing got
Splatted.]
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I sat there busy typing, some poetry and tha...
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Categories:
hawk moth, fear, humorous, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Beauties and Cuties
...Hey,Miss cute little jumping spider;
you are a skilled under leaf hider.
Wow!The crown like eight tiny eyes!
or you the princess in disguise?
Hello, Mr. Handsome Hawk moth caterpillar;
the col...
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Categories:
hawk moth, animal, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Butterfly Bee
...floats like butterfly nectar's birds of a feather ...
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Categories:
hawk moth, bird, flower, flying, insect,
Form: Haiku