Seasons Insect Poems

~ 'tis springtime in the meadow; out here in nature, all is wide awake ~

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Spring takes its leave.
Now, humid, hot sultry eves
Lighting bugs in flight
Lighting up the night
Crickets loudly chirping.
From the bird bath, mosquitoes slurping.
Frogs calling for a mate.
Limited...

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Mistaking falling yellow leaves
For bees, even as trees are dying....

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Mission, purpose, focus, Direction
  determined, persistent
  herky-jerky, near-frantic
      driven underground
      Buried by season's...

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munching on aphids
perched atop an aspen leaf ~
         a lone ladybug



Submitted for...
Spring Haiku - Traditional Form Poetry...

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Poor Mr. Mosquito gets a bad rap
  In winter he takes a three-month nap

In spring and fall he's hardly on the map
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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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Caterpillars race
slowly across my barefoot path
I walk patiently...

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Amaryllis apple blossoms start to bloom.
Bumblebees buzz and butterflies float about.
   Fruits of renewal are ripe for the picking.
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A Shadorma

Summer nights,
staccato crickets,
croaking frogs,
barking dogs;
firefly lanterns reeling ‘round,
an august concert.

Thunder claps,
drum beats echoing
through the clouds,
oh so proud.
They dance with lightening fingers;
concert of the rain.


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cold and snow arrives
young praying mantes last bow
staring at the trees
content to see the egg sacs
holding their spring progeny...

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I know this happens every year,
but I dislike it all the same,
cloying, oppressive August heat
puts such a great stress on the brain.
Add the humidity to...

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Silent Spring
Their buzzing gone
Wrist flick done
Peace at last

Silent Spring
Glinting lights dark
Children's laughter stark
Quiet at last

Silent Spring
Bugged windscreen
Butterfly spleen
Clean at last

Silent spring
Digital melodies
Comforting remedies
Dead at last...

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PICTURE THIS BUTTERFIES FREE I'M IN CAPTIVITY

Monarch high
Butterflies
Soaring, Floating, flying
flying...
I stand encased in this world glass jar
I'm pounding on the panes to get out
Get out...

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Lampyridae  FIREFLY

It's the dawn of night 
And I see you flash
So bright, so bright
Beetle beautiful, Lampyridae,  Coleoptera
I see you with my eyes
Abdomen flashing...

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