Metaphor Insect Poems

I see words, and they see me 
It’s true they are sentient, quite
But they will never see the light 
of my world through my loins

They...

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I see an ant crawling along the train platform.
We are like ants in the universe's vast form.
Life as hard as stone, like this ant I...

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A graceful  g l o w~
a belly-flicking thrill,         
       ...

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What stings like wasps in hives,
Of trying minds' regret,
Invasive blips, flash frozen pictures,
Recalls, counterfeit,
Serrated icy sickled thoughts,
In glaciated snow,
Dread the warmth, the trickled stream,
Of thawing...

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In this hive

of American life

are lifetime workers

engaged in labors of love

and good trouble.

 

But there are

also evil drones

seeking to permanently

 cocoon justice, liberty

and equality.

 

Thus,...

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Born of deep waters
But hiding secret longings 
Which yearns for the air above
Changing skin daily
The black nymph dreams of the day
It could escape the dank...

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CHRISTMAS EVE GIFT MANTIS


In one hundred years
I saw a thousand mantises
on this Christmas Eve another
descended unexpected gift
for a northern Lightwave
whilst I stared at singular 
Southern...

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SIMPLE SPIDER STORY

Palsy poison spider
bickering, binding, biting
sparring, stinging, scampering
creeping in crevices cocooned 
coded crooked cock-eyed

Here, there, everywhere 

Scorpions enticed bicolour eyes
broken webs of gravity’s return
to...

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winter's temperate.
towards cold outside yet it was; 
sunny 70° and...
~
 a fly flew by my;
eyes in awe I wondered O'
 whoosh-flutter buzzzz---
~
why? in the dead...

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In the shallow
light of the moon,
the shadow dives
into the Hydrangeas
seeking a camouflage
of dark green
the howl of the
wolf pierces the
silence of the sleepy night
like the cry...

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A colourful array of falsehoods
Intricately designed disguises 
Fools, fortunes, phantoms
Masks clinging on their faces
 Lives hidden away by an illusory veils
Veils that cannot be removed
Cannot...

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an unwashed plate sits
no one around to clean it~~
smiles as roach sponges...

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trapped,
safeguarded,
each appendage
secured in amber,
some Jurassic specimen
created for your gaze

you regard me
with a quizzical eye,
comb your notes carefully 
for collected data
on my anomalies

how to straighten this...

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The streetlight spread
like an abandoned strip
old hot spots deserted 
with no moths   no buzz zip
the party is over
nightlife is dead....

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A moth drawn to the 
ethereal light
exuded by a lucky few 
like you
to escape eternal night
I singed my wings
dreaming of brighter things
better days I’d been...

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