Music Insect Poems

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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Christopher Cricket
Lived out in a thicket
With his musical family

They slept by day
Each night they would play
At the Firefly Jamboree

A chorus of frogs
Encamped in the bogs
Would...

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The warm hour after sunset in summer
Has long passed
So fast from these trees

In between
Just before the first freeze

Katydid clicks with half her strength
In the not-quite-right...

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Ants work like busy little bees,                   ...

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Shimmering, alive
Flickering music to night
Waking the starlight

Dancing like the stars
Reflecting grace, silent praise
Whispering kindness

Mysterious lights
Singing through the darkest night
Laughing dreamily

...

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How do gnats enter?
A million dollar question
Puzzles me till now
Brought preventives this and that
Closed all doors but of no use

A friend advised me
To lit a...

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In the morning dew
          redolent sounds 
         ...

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Music notes of my son's trombone
Sneak out from the front door
Flow into our front yard,
I Follow them 
To find fireflies every where;

The stage is set
Crickets...

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I remember the day Frankenstein was made,                  ...

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Summer night solstice 
lightening bug paparazzi 
cool cricket chorus...

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Two spiders dance cross ivory keys
The sounds they make reprise songs of trees
Phantom fingers flick like legs from hands
Over blacks and whites on baby grands
Every...

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music in the trees
gossips teem in green bowers
marigolds abuzz

cracker butterflies
among burgundy roses
twittering away

hollyhocks abuzz
with news of the honeybee
such blues pinks and blacks

crickets go screaming
near the...

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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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Locusts and crickets rub their legs like mad
   Their summer night symphonies uniformly bad

Yet when chill breezes still these musicians' strings
  ...

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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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