Father Insect Poems

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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Under the sun and moon, flawed men linger in the cold 
Who in the mist of darkness, cut and rip apart trees eons old 
While...

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Fueled by nature’s glow
flickers with wondrous bliss
fascinating night blitz
flashes cheers here and there 
featuring great nature’s 
full-fledged lamp designer:
faithful God, Source of light*.
 
*Matthew 5:16...

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Trifolium pollinated courtesy bombus

Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to another flower.

Meanwhile, I lie...

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Ants work like busy little bees,                   ...

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I remember the day Frankenstein was made,                  ...

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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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Meet the ‘rents (A bee movie)


As Humble left the honeycomb, now a bee,
He was accompanied by a guard with a kind heart.
The guards name was...

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COCKROACH...!!!
            Scream my desperate daughters ...
            - Mom, kill the cockroach ...!
            I ask because mom
            and not the father ...!?
            - What's the reason...

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There is a town in Austin
they call "the Roach Motel,"
for many a poor roach that entered there
a sticky fate befell.
Now roaches, you keep our of...

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This black moth
flew in the front door
of the living room  
the other night 
and has been up 
on the ceiling
ever since.
It's hanging 
upside down
in...

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The symphony begins before daylight.
Night herons blink tired eyes at music’s quake.
Some tiny fish splash in the silent night.
With spearing beak her breakfast she does...

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ask Sigourney Weaver
a creature born to devour
it sucks your blood into its liver
whilst malaria it delivers
you may develop a high fever
the end may make you...

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A toddler’s heels wham… flip flop flip flop 
Annoyed by the sound that runs non-stop,
Dad grabs a plug to cover his ears
While an army of...

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Lady bug 

Lady bug lady bug it is fun to play and look at you, 
you seem to increase in size whenever we live in...

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