Farewell Insect Poems

Little spider dear
Why did you make home here
It's flyless I'm sure
Not due to you, but my efforts more

Why not get involved in the action
Of cultivating...

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Summer returned
    unexpectedly
    in the form of  
      a bumblebee

  It buzzed...

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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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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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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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It was nearly 60 degrees
On the 21st of January,
On what should be
One of the coldest and snowiest
Days of winter
In Michigan,
But, instead,
After a month of mud
Unfreezing
And...

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Regret runs through my mind.
Secrets I thought, none would find.
My willpower ebbs
For I am a spider, caught in its own web.

The decisions I have made
Set...

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My Pesky Friend

You landed on my coffee cup; you landed on the chair,
You landed on my shoulder, now I know not where,
Did you go, my...

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beauty, fairy, fantasy, farewell, imagery, insect,

 A Faerie Recognized! ©

Recognition led me near 
To a ‘faerie’ dragonfly 
Magic 'glow' attracts   
I am astonished...

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Slowly I am drifting, fluttering across a lush and green meadow, 
seeking out the life giving nectar of your flower. 
Your ruby red pedals spread...

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He
flickers
electric
but fades to dim. 
A sidewalk deathbed,
too cold for this mystic.
Come rest on my wrist angel 
and swallow the wild, night air.
Let my slow stride...

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