Summer Insect Poems

coccinellidae
happiness personified
smiling with delight
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Hot summer, wearing
sun-striped sweaters, worker bees
in eighty-degrees.
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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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POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 3: EVOLUTION



Peers
by Michael R. Burch

These thoughts are alien, as through green slime
smeared on some lab tech’s brilliant slide, I grope,
positioning my bright...

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In summer, sun-flowers wave,
welcoming buzzing bugs
humming among petals, 
around pollen yellow as gold
dappled in puddles of light.
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When I was a little girl, Granddad and I spent many summer evenings together sipping lemonade and swinging back and forth on his vintage metal...

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summer nights abuzz
  street lamps busy with insects~
        funny things you miss...

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Gnats, fruitflies, midges, black flies
What do you call them?
I call them pests.
Unwelcome guests
I call them demons from hell.
They fly past my face.
They go for my...

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Chirping of the birds
Cicadas tymbals vibrate
Songs of the Summer...

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

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On verdant grass lay
Grasshoppers invite to play,
One midsummer day....

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There was a time not so long ago
When my children still ran on little legs

Wading through ocean green evening summer grass
Their faces bright as lamps...

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summertime fun 
kids at play in the meadow ~
     the time of their lives...

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a balmy evening
sweating out rivers of heat ~
sun glares in silence

too hot to handle
sounds of summer pierce the sky ~
cicada chorus

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*** Bugged ***

Summer is here.  A beautiful time of the year, or nearly.
If only it only gave life to the good and better
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