Insect Poems | Examples of Insect Poetry

Wide eyes cast their gaze upward ‘Today’s Spider Web’ mocks him Eight spindly filaments weave a web Are these hands not as delicately bred ...

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A friendly spider addressed a fly, "I'm glad you could drop by". "Thanks", said the fly, "for sharing your thought. You're glad, but I wonder why". The spider replied, "Why not?"...

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a welcome visit lady bug sweet lady bug bearer of good luck AP: Honorable Mention 2025...

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clinging to a wind-tossed leaf a red-and-black-spotted ladybug flips upside down, then right side up again and again in...

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Carpenter bee buzzing and drilling sawdust spirals down ...

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Little Arabella Miller lived in town, but far enough out in green country, To watch the raspberry sun go down, and to climb a lavish, plum tree. Arabella was seven-years-old, and had a three-year-old, baby brother; Like the golden sunrise of promise, and unprecedented joys we discover. Arabella Miller loved all of nature, and the myriad creatures who live...

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Air getting humid Summer peaks around corner Cicadas singing...

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Help! I stand desperately on a precipice, and ask you, poet, what kind of bug is this? I am not an entomologis. It was on top of my laptop computer. Is it male or female or is it neuter? I can't afford an entomolotutor. It gazes at me through a compound eye, I see no wings. Does it walk...

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first night— the soul’s fringe still shining hazily the last night— as though knowing time has come morning comes— a firefly spends all its light ...

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Praying mantises, those arthropod thugs, prey upon other, unfortunate, bugs, "But who prays for the praying mantis?", I ask, "And what lurks behind that killer's mask?" After the males have fulfilled their function, the females seem to lack compunction, practicing sexual cannibalism, they say, enjoying a nice meal after a roll in the hay. While males consider this distasteful, females say,...

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I spied an ant beneath a kitchen sink and I remembered as he made me think about that steely silent battle of wills, under a wee mushroom, below its gills, when I was a hopeful, contending drone competing for the queen upon her throne. ...

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I see an ant crawling along the train platform. We are like ants in the universe's vast form. Life as hard as stone, like this ant I am alone, But I know I will return home, each milestone....

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A graceful g l o w~ a belly-flicking thrill, g...

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God's little lamps illuminating the night; luminescent lampyrids lighting up my darkness... ...

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fireflies everywhere but only in her Rapunzel hair only love transgresses forest through the tresses ...

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