School Insect Poems

I am the queen of beauty the common butterfly, 
I spread my wings and flap away among the trees I fly.

My wings exhibit colours of...

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Drink the poison from my blood, breathe the rot from my lungs.
Take all that has been decaying inside me and nurse it to health like...

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classroom nervousness
caterpillar’s first school day ~
butterflies inside


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for the Just One poetry contest
sponsored by Sara Kendrick
written on 08-05-2023
using words from group 5...

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the caterpillar
emerges from its classroom
cocoon, changed inside

(group 5)...

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The other day a Dobson fly landed on me…and I mistakenly had this hunch
that his reason was a simple one…he wanted me for lunch

Since then...

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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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Me: Say Charlotte, is your story true?
C: It’s fictional, now are we through?

Me: So are you rich from telling yarns?
C: I’ve got nice threads, but...

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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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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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Don’t bee late for Flight-school


Ok…Are you sure you have got everything that you need?
There is nothing you have forgotten?
Nothing you want to get before you...

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Beeside signs.


One day Humble was in his nursery class learning,
About the A-Bee-See’s;
When the teacher, Miss Guide-Bee, 
Told them all that later that day,
The would bee...

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I have a constant itch upon my head
So I scratch it with my finger
At night I head upstairs to bed
But the itching continues to linger

I...

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He laid nest by his pillow near head...and woke 'neath a mantis bedspread!


Sandra M. Haight

~6th Place~
Contest: Funny One-Liner
Sponsor: Silent One
Judged: 10/11/2016
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AN UNUSUAL FRIEND

I was walking home from school one day,
And passed by an empty lot,
It was during the month of June,
And the day was pretty...

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