Autumn Insect Poems

I dreamt of blue birds
and buzzing bumble bees.
I roamed with the bison herds,
prayed with mantis on our knees,
and butterflies in the breeze.

I greeted the cheery...

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Saw two butterflies
Fly beneath the autumn skies
With their golden wings....

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comes close to winter
 after solace autumn falls
 where do the ants go
~
down so the tempe-
--rature drops and after the
 Heat air and ground crops
~
winter...

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A tiny yellow butterfly had descended before me,
Camoflaging with all the fallen golden autumn leaves,
Here in this park where I spend many of my solitary...

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a farmer under a tree

remarks when stung by a bee

seems each september

rain or fair weather

we seldom seem to agree.
...

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Weaving a web, light
Falling in shafts of weightless
Ingenuity
Laughing like stardust
Reflecting silent moments
Does it catch the fly?
Gloating in colors
Hues of delicate sunlight,
Risking graceful rays,
Will she catch...

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A female praying mantis is so alluring, living in her island paradise -- a small swamp with so many wonderful plants and flowers around. The...

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Autumn Arachnid Drink

Spider
Cider

The Bridge Spider

Spider
glider

The Goliath Birdeater

Wider
Spider

The Wolf Spiders’ Babies

Spider’s
Riders

An Aquatic Spider

Strider
Spider

Spider on Ice

Spider
Slider

Spider to Beware of

Spider
Hider

The Fickle Spider

Flighty
spidey

Cleanest Cobwebs in Town

Tidy
spidey

Daddy Long Legs

Fatty
Daddy

November 10,...

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Mistaking falling yellow leaves
For bees, even as trees are dying....

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Our window
Outside
Is filthy with autumn webs

The spiders tricked
By kitchen lights
Supplanting the appetite of summer sunrises

Orphaned leaf
Tangles and struggles
Strumming the harp to this windy day

House strokes...

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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...

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*Image of Worm On Leaf by Pixabay.

an act of autumn

rustling leaves tumble
nest of starved younglings screeching~
crawling goes exposed

2022 September 07
*1st Place*
Autumn in Nature - Haiku
~~Tania...

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A ladybug is crawling
As the autumn leaves drift down.
Then suddenly, two more appear;
I thought that they’d left town.

But Google told me otherwise
For ladybugs, it said,
Enjoy...

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soft autumn breezes
insects floating lazily
suppertime for chimney swifts

written October 10, 2021...

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Merging into the chorus

I glanced at the night sky
Mesmerizing/Spellbinding

This carbon-based life form 
Started to break into p.i.e.c.e.s

As the mosses desperately approach the light
All of my...

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