January Insect Poems

pie
delightful, delectable
appealing, appetizing, appeasing
sweetness, sugariness, acidity, acerbity
retching, regorging, regurgitating
brackish, brinish
fly

NB: This is purely my own reaction to eating flies. I understand it’s quite the delicacy...

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Ants, do not invade my clean warm kitchen, please,
For I fear you are carrying some dreadful, exotic disease
When you find tiny cracks through which to...

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*Image of Ladybugs by Pixabay.

What's Bugging You

a ladybug lands
another land in the midst
a breathtaking view

hey there hey there ladybug 
come right here and let us...

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VIDEO: Hair by The Cowsills.

Scare (MY LYRICS)

She ran and hug,
Why? There's a scary bug,
They're scary and they bug and bug, bug,
The bugs are a fright,
They're...

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[This is based on a true story from some years ago…
Some elaboration involved… oh… and nothing got
Splatted.]

        ...

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In half-sleep one night
a spider came in my sight,
crawling out of the clock,
I got a shuddering shock
as I felt it crept on my face 
in...

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I used to hate insects until I met a small spider, 
he was living in my garden making his webs;
that spider would skillfully traverse...

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Little lady bug by my window how pretty you look 
with your fragile wings and sweet tiny polka dots  
Fate brought you to me...

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tender tulips trust
touch teach tame tune tolerate ~
tiny toktokkies


18 January 2022 
Nature Haiku with Alliteration Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Syllable Checked: PS Syllable Counter...

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Spiders, ants, and all kinds of bees
Are problematic when you work on your knees
While mosquitoes and gnats vex during your leisure
Insects have a way of...

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Gossamer silk strings were woven into a work of art.
Dandling from a shrub and glittering with dawn impart
As dainty as a mutter, obliterated by an...

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In my consign of living, nature in its fullness bends,
Creepers, climbers, insects and flies are, hence, in abundance;
House-flies relish our rooms, floors, beds, heads, faces,...

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He sits and scratches 
	With endless scratching
They cover him in patches
	Hope they aren’t catching

He struggles with them
	Longing to destroy their eggs
They darken and condemn
	Creeping and...

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Some disgusting and cute,
Many creepy and mute,

Some exotic and vain,
Mainly local and plain,

Some revolt, some amaze,
Most pest, bother and chase,

Some crawl, slither and jump,
Buzz, bite,...

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a
long
fragile
spidery
silver threadlike street
crossing in nature's G.P.S.
like those swinging bridges in gentle wafting breezes
temporary avenues to more hospitable environmental habitat

written January 3, 2022...

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