History Insect Poems

It's been a long time since the cicadas rumbled.
History books say 'twas eighteen hundred and three
When war struck the trees where bees sometimes bumbled.

The seventeen...

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Sacred and mythical
Healer and whimsical
Beetle of majestic history
Needle of intrinsic glittery...

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Grasshoppers on the maple tree,
sitting and singing all day long,
tee tee, trit a tee, trit a tee,
is always their favourite song!

half the plant leaves have...

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The oldest living group 
of chewing herbivorous insects 
proudly carries 250 million years 
of quiet evolution.
No soft muscle tissue 
on these grasshopper legs, 
they are bear 
as...

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A beetle and a butterfly were on the local news
The first insects in history to have a shop for shoes

One day - it was a...

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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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We stand in line for this?
A two dimensional string
A world with no up or down
Moving back and forth only

Favored by nature moving
Forward and backward evolve
From...

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Once upon a lightning strike
Children frightened from the storm 
Found an ancient jar intact but empty
On the forest floor before a cave
A rare, rose colored...

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Fossil dragonflies with wingspans about two feet,
Imagine seeing that dragon fly on the street !
Three hundred million years old;
Remarkable story to be told!!
Ancient, beautiful, I...

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At any rate, it was not quite a ‘history repeating itself event', but it was close.  It was the same place and close to...

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Cosmic Contract Soul Mate - Haiku

universe at large
opens up, looks down, confers
bug winks back, confirmed...

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Insect Part Two

The truth is, my first insect was murdered
Right by these very steps
The death came at the hands
Or should I say, feet, of a...

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We were replacing burned out outside light 
bulbs at clubhouse. A wasp had built a nest 
in the top of one of them. Two wasps...

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Bug Destiny

Round tiny bug moves slow along the garden path
Avoiding traffic as it trudges along
Carries the hardened armor of its ancestry
Down there too, through the...

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