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Childhood Insect Poems

These Childhood Insect poems are examples of Insect poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of Insect Childhood poems written by international poets.


Insect innocence

Drink the poison from my blood, breathe the rot from my lungs.
Take all that has been decaying inside me and nurse it to health like...

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Categories: insect, angst, child abuse, childhood,



Premium Member Catching Lightning Bugs
When I was a little girl, Granddad and I spent many summer evenings together sipping lemonade and swinging back and forth on his vintage metal...

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Categories: grandfather, insect, magic, night,

Premium Member There Used To Be Fireflies In the Summer
There was a time not so long ago
When my children still ran on little legs

Wading through ocean green evening summer grass
Their faces bright as lamps...

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Categories: insect, appreciation, childhood, creation, dream,

Premium Member Battlegrounds
Childhood crept through
those long summer days
when the smell of pine
hung in the hot air.
Deep in the shadows
of that besieged acre,
heaven and hell played
out a lethal...

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Categories: anxiety, conflict, insect,

Fireflies
It’s an interesting thing that little children do,

Catching fireflies in a jar not thinking it through.

They cover the jar and tighten the jar lid,

Placing it...

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Categories: childhood, flying, insect, light,



Premium Member A Peaceful Somewhere
As children we revelled in nature’s playground
Lying in cool grass watching clouds sail by
Sharing with playmates ‘treasures’ we’d found
Caterpillars, beetles - a dead dragonfly
Jars of...

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Categories: insect, childhood, encouraging, growing up,

Premium Member Fiery Waltz
My heart remembers
Collecting fireflies in jars
With cousins I loved
We shared these twinkling sparks, lights
Of vibrant, dancing spirits




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Categories: dance, insect, nature,

Premium Member Ants
Ants work like busy little bees,                   ...

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Categories: home, humor, insect, life,

Premium Member A Tea Party
I remember the day Frankenstein was made,                  ...

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Categories: drink, fun, halloween, insect,

Premium Member The Bat
My first encounter with a brown bat was at Long Lake as a kid. It was in the dark of night. I was in a...

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Categories: insect, animal, boat, children, environment,

There For Me
Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Categories: insect, 12th grade, character, hope,

Premium Member Keeping Alive
O long and lonely winter nights; times of my early childhood.
Often weary and wet, but filled with a few people, decent and good.
The sun of...

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Categories: creation, god, insect, moon,

Premium Member The Firefly
the firefly
leads back to memories 
of childhood and awe...

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Categories: insect, adventure, childhood, emotions, how

6 - Beetv
BeeTV


What is that Dude?  That’s the TV Son.
What does it do?  Oh it lots of fun!
There are these bees, you see, they act...

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Categories: childhood, family, insect, life,

Premium Member Fireflies In Mason Jars
As a child, we ran and caught fireflies in Mason jars
They lit up the twilight with their ignited bottoms
The joy of catching these bugs I’ve...

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Categories: childhood, insect, inspiration, miracle,


Book: Shattered Sighs