Journey Insect Poems

You fascinate clearly
Once you're out of your hive
Flitting here, landing there
Keeping gardens alive

There's a sweetness, and yet
Nasty sting so beware
Your work all consumes 
As you...

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a praying mantis
  crosses the freeway
  in that pose
    or should I say
     in repose ~
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Grinning grasshopper gallops gracefully,
Getting garden grasses,
Gathering green grapes,
Grasping gorgeous goldenrods,
Grazing grand grounds,
Greeting greedy grubs,
Gliding gallantly...
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Bugs become beautiful butterflies,
basking bashfully beside blooming buttercups.
Breezes blow butterflies...bounding, bouncing, balancing
Butterflies bathe, belt bloom's beverage, buzz breathlessly 
beyond blue blossoms.
Butterflies' beauty blazes brightly!...

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Bob a small bug landed on a childs swing
Weary and puffed because of the wind
Resting his wings and his six tiny legs
Tired from his journey,...

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Skinned shins on tree skins,
Space-viewed landscapes of rust and paint 
Showing mirrored continents imagined; 
Worlds within worlds at every turn, 
Outlines of Octopi on Oil...

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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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Bee-Real


As I flew up, into the air, 
I looked back one last time at the hive.
All the bees were standing there.
Some were happy and proud...

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for Alice Coltrane 


I got a love for you
you be jazz
I got a love for you
you be jazz
I got a love for you
you be jazz
jazz...

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a lonely melancholic caterpillar
wrapped up in its tiny little universe
with its teeny caterpillar dreams
single-mindedly oblivious
to its own destiny
unaware what journey lies ahead
clueless of its fate...

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Fate’s feet wait for the moment,
Clinging to a blade of grass,
Like a tick clinging on a loment,
Waiting for the unknowing to pass.

Sometimes as high as...

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I made a U turn at dusk as dark night creeps  upon me
I tried to catch my breath from the horrible smell that was...

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Summer spring bright colors, smells, flowers blooming welcome feast
Amongst these bees so irresistibly attracted to sugary nectar 
A thought occurs to me, to see these...

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Satin Winged Flowers ...by Carrie Richards  and Poet Destroyer

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Let's watch how they cluster in whirlwind ballets, 
lifting like clouds from the dark swampy ground....

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