Roaches on a Filthy CountertopThey're everywhere now...
when lights dim in the corners of society
swarming like cock roaches to a filthy countertop...
strutting around on stage in crystal, ego bubbles.
Telling us what to eat- what to wear- how to think
when they're sloppy, unhappy and quite obese.
They tell us how to pursue peace
(when peace is already here) ...
They even tell us how...
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Categories:
absence, insect, jesus,
Form: Free verse
unlike her peers
Categories:
appreciation, cute, insect,
Form: Haiku
SummeringThere’s thunder; and thunderous crickets-sound.
The boom-boom that’s not too loud.
The insects, incessant.
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Categories:
insect, sound,
Form: Kimo
humming bees
haughty humming bees
move antenna merrily
with waves of mild breeze-
bees groaning freely flying
around fresh fragrant flowers.
flowers smile to...
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Categories:
insect,
Form: Other
our insect line upgreen praying mantis
winged emperor dragonfly
spotted ladybug
dancing stag beetle
fat chubby potato bug
sneaky silver fish
purposeful black ant
yellow striped mud dauber
our insect line up...
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Categories:
insect, animal,
Form: Senryu
Categories:
insect,
Form: Monoku
ButtermorphosisI recall the rural life of the butterfly
Extravagantly —that proud floating mass of wings.
Her wings flutter from sea to coast so eloquently,
Yet silent with the muteness of frightened breeze.
They are banners with buntings of newness — striped,
Spotted, arched, dotted.
Her flamboyant life history, reading it backwards,
Is an exhibition of time and cosseted patience....
The winged one, aged...
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Categories:
butterfly, insect, life,
Form: Free verse
ANGELIC DECEPTORANGELIC DECEPTOR
Magnetic mantis,
in pious genuflection,
attracting its prey:-
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Categories:
insect, angel, betrayal, conflict, extended
Form: Haiku
Quickie
In the next life
if reincarnated
as a mayfly
I am designated
it's good enough for me
with nothing but fun
for twenty-four hours
(under the sun)
until the race is run
bonking here bonking there
I'll be bonking everywhere
non-stop until I drop
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Categories:
fun, humor, insect, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
A Fly and a BirdI saw a buzzing, birding fly go by.
It spied a puzzling, flying bird up high.
When it said, "that's a flycatcher, I think",
that bird caught lunch - a fly and a drink....
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Categories:
animal, insect,
Form: Rhyme
The Cycle of Nature - Paying It Forward and Back
A tree needs sun, water and soil
gives back its fruit...
and its shade
on a hot, sultry day
A bee needs...
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Categories:
giving, humanity, insect, nature,
Form: Free verse
NECTAR SAVOUR-gentle bee lights feeds
beside me as I am sighting
colorful floral
~
aromatic bud
enters flower and just sucks
the tasty nectar
07/14/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
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Categories:
insect, addiction, deep, engagement, food,
Form: Haiku
brown
Categories:
food, insect,
Form: Haiku
Misty Childhood VisionBy calm childhood's brook,
shafts of brash, slanting light
shone through a dewy mist.
From a stone, there I spied,
descending from a thread,
dawn's angel from the dark....
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Categories:
insect, angel, childhood, day, dream,
Form: Free verse
Visionby the spring in the mist
a spider string, dew kissed
I saw from my stone chair
on its end suspended
an angel descended
gone with a puff of air
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Categories:
angel, insect,
Form: Verse
Specific Types of Insect Poems
Definition | What is Insect in Poetry?
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