Pets Insect Poems

Naught lowlife, but pro-life; pin-up; wildlife,
like the Mantis, or the praying Mantis,
cockroaches and termites, close relatives,
there are stick ones or grasshoppers, half-life.
A year's life, they...

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Rainbow suave sky soars the aliferous,
swarms as life bores a chance of existence,
so the geckos take without resistance,
for there are those who find them delicious.
They're...

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An orthopteran, otherwise none as a cricket, is a small to medium-sized insect with a mostly cylindrical, somewhat vertically flattened body. Crickets can be found...

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My Shiny Beetle

I found a shiny beetle,
I call him Glitterbug Jim.
He’s dead and I’m heartbroken
So I’m going to immortalise him.
I’ll wrap him round in resin
So...

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My first encounter with a brown bat was at Long Lake as a kid. It was in the dark of night. I was in a...

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Parents, siblings, all gone in a Raid 
Such is the way of insect populations
Every bug has its day when sprayed
One escapes, clings on to life...

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Using reasoning to understand how we treat other species

And what we see means their numbers are rapidly decreasing

As humanity with its limited understanding keep feasting

On...

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Hello, I am a praying mantis from the tropics,
a killer really, once I bit off the head of my lover;
and then I ate him, yummy...

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Lady bug 

Lady bug lady bug it is fun to play and look at you, 
you seem to increase in size whenever we live in...

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