Sad Insect Poems

Cicada Dreaming was told to Roland Robinson in 1965 by Julia Charles of the Yoocum Yoocum clans from the area around Wollumbin in the headwaters...

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I've a bag for spiders, you may ask why 
Cannot stand them, when I spy one I cry
Pop them into the bag each one I...

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Jimmy crack corn I’ve been told.
Why would Jimmy crack his corn?
It gives kick to liquor bold,
makes you wonder why you’re born.

Yet, that mean ol’ blue-tail...

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I used to hate insects until I met a small spider, 
he was living in my garden making his webs;
that spider would skillfully traverse...

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Ants work like busy little bees,                   ...

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I remember the day Frankenstein was made,                  ...

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A beetle and a butterfly were on the local news
The first insects in history to have a shop for shoes

One day - it was a...

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As we count the number of corona deaths
I sit and ponder about my last trekking in woods 
How many ants and small insects I would...

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Maybe I should have said something but I didn’t.
I thought the ladies there might get upset.
I stared for several moments lost between thought and action...

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Let’s just bee friends


Humble sat with BlondeBee outside in the hive garden.
All the little mites were floating around, 
Collecting all the twigs and leaves which...

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Beeuty


Humble wasn’t a pretty bee, nor was he what you would call ugly,
But somehow he did ok with the ladies.
He got the eye, lots of...

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Bee-for


I’m no social butterfly, but I buzz from flower to flower.
I talk to all as I do the rounds, but my resting face looks dour.
They...

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COCKROACH LOVERS

Mind:

If: you ever come across a cockroach lover, avoid them like mad
They are either so very weird or very desperately lonely and sad

Indiana Shaw...

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I was reading in my study
On my desk a moth lay stunned,
It had flew into my lamp,   
I fear 'tis moribund.

It had fluttered...

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A phantasmal honeybee doth fly
and haunts his hexagonal hive...

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