Girl 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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With her tiny tummy rumbling, she stood quaking in the wood that surrounded her dear father's dairy farm. The white, porcelain bowl and the silver...

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Cat eyed insect popped out of the garden today
I saw the yellow in its eyes staring at me in a way
Big blink and then the...

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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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Ants work like busy little bees,                   ...

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Bringing luck to all on whom she lands,
her six propellers tickle the hand.
With spotted Elytra of red and black
symmetrical patterns to say stay back,
to predators...

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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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Beeuty


Humble wasn’t a pretty bee, nor was he what you would call ugly,
But somehow he did ok with the ladies.
He got the eye, lots of...

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Terrified, the little girl cries
until her grandmother turns wise,
“All God’s creatures want to survive.
I know you love your small garden.
Now watch these workers work magic”

Those...

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A girl called Lucy loved to trumpet lies
And idle gossip laced her lips with ease.
Tall tales tripped off her tongue to tantalise
Those twitching ears which...

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A young girl with ants in her pants
Was doing a strange kind of dance
We yelled, "Take 'em off!"
She snarled back a scoff:
"Its Utah! That's nowhere...

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girl's playful sundress
matching hot pink sunglasses
~ tea time with her dolls



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on May 27, 2018...

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A little boy and his older sister
Caught twenty ants and put them in a jar
Then filled the jar with water
And watched the poor ants drown.

The...

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her precious pendant harbours a secret
biological blueprint
pregnant with potential

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(C) John C Michaels, April 2017...

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