Mystery Insect Poems

Bamboo flickering
Grasshopper leaps from the leaves
What else is in there...

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What’s in the grass and what do I know?
There are creepy and freaky things below.

All sorts of insects and crawly creatures
are among grass’ most fearsome...

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

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In recent years I had grown so forgetful, like noon without memory of night.
I forgot special events and sundry items, like books, my phone, or...

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Cactus Dancer 

Graceful spider dances on sharp cactus spikes
Spinnerets leave webs of dainty filigree 
Each web a masterpiece of sublime delights
Silk filaments wear dews as...

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Buzzing above me
Whizzing through shadowy flight
Stabbing fangs in skin
Causing welts and itchy bites
Festering plots slay these pests





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Sponsored by: M. L. Kiser
August 21,...

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~lit lonely insect
flutters mist the air it creeps
eight legs has its feet

creepy crawler waits,
mystery bug that sweeps wait
one millipede please~

6/24/21
	
CONTEST PLACEMENT: HONORABLE MENTION
For Bite Size...

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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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Slum

Where hard looks and thin soup oppose,
the spider, cockroach, rat, and mouse dispute
in patient litigation or in border raids
our title to this world. 

There is...

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As I idled on the grass
I heard a little cricket,
But I could not see him though,
He was somewhere in a thicket.

I found his chirping charming
An...

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Amazing creature,
Tiny weight trainer, never
Doubts his own power.
He’s a tiny master of
A great, herculean task.

...

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Burrow out to mate
swarms of red eyed flights outbreak
love bugs deathly fate


6-3-18...

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summer cicadas
ushering patience to that
whole other level



Submitted on May 28, 2018 for contest MAGICICADA NON-TRADITIONAL HAIKU sponsored by MAUREEN MCGREAVY...

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We stood at the side of the pond
Listening to a noise so loud was absurd,
Looked into the murky waters beyond,
No sight, just this very loud...

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A  beat of my hungry passion draws you
To  me.  And I wait for this slow approach,
Excited…darkness on camouflage of grass
My limbs attract,entrap......

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