Family Insect Poems

Climbing ivy draws and flowers, delight,
Agapema anon a Saturn moth. 
Saturniidae family has spanned life
short, longer if bigger, three weeks--like Hoth,
blind god tricked by Loki...

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Flying in twilight like
fairies bearing tiny
flashlights which constantly
flicker on and off, this
family of bugs are
factually beetles -
fascinating to me!...

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Christopher Cricket
Lived out in a thicket
With his musical family

They slept by day
Each night they would play
At the Firefly Jamboree

A chorus of frogs
Encamped in the bogs
Would...

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In recent years I had grown so forgetful, like noon without memory of night.
I forgot special events and sundry items, like books, my phone, or...

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Visitors I saw in my garden today were:

9 starlings noisily squabbling
1 duck casually waddling.

1 robin - a handsome little chap
1 bumble bee, that landed on...

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I had too much to give you
My car it broke right down 
You know I can't forgive you
For making me walk all the way across
This...

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I am a tiny winged buzzing insect
A friend to folks and flowers alike
Another name for hard work
Toiling untiring from dawn to dusk

I set out merry,...

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Ants work like busy little bees,                   ...

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Fireflies flicker flashes,
flying freely
finding food, friends, family...
Fireflies float forward,
fearlessly flipping
frolicking field's foliage.
Fireflies furnish fiery flares,
fleeing fast...fond farewell!...

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[Poo and poop... same thing]

                    ...

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I remember the day Frankenstein was made,                  ...

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Fireflies twinkle in to the night 
little stars winking off N on 
each a light a sudden rush 
of memory
Each hit me hard 
as tears...

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When I walk in
you are sat 
with arms crossed
loosely
watching
two woodlice,
one trailing behind
too slow to keep up.
The light bulb,
too white
for a cosy 
living room,
is naked
without 
its...

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It's in there I know it is I saw it,
It made my skin crawl,
My mouth is dry,
Backing away not knowing what to do,
The family is...

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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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