Water 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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Flower blooms heaven in seventh-year warps,
yet, Coryanthes, the Bucket Orchid,
is an odd flower. The lip's limited
into a water-filled bucket; bugs, oops, 
fall in, but can't...

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 sweet is the nectar 
chosen you are a flower
 milkweed and aster
~
 favorite blossom
 preference "bee" popular 
pollinated plants
~
borage bee come in
 inside me...

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Rascally roadrunner in the sun	
finding grasshoppers on the run
feed your babies high protein
build a nest off the ground
in my two live oaks
run up and down
smiling...

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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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One of the advantages of growing old…one of the things I most adore
is how time slows down allowing me to enjoy the wonders around me...

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Whiz-bang the Frog

Whiz-bang the frog
 And Toodles the dragonfly
Sit by the pond
 Watching the caddisflies

They sing La Ti Da!
 They sing Fa La La!
And then...

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The Cabin

There is a cabin 
That sits on the shore 
Of an emerald lake,
Alive, with sun and swallows
Birds hum along with the children at play
Knee...

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A Jewel beetle I did meet one day.
What a gem was she with her sparkling way.
Another beetle I’d been pining for . . . 
the...

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river runs rampant
	drunken burbling and babbling ~
		dizzy dragonfly

rambling river rolls
	successful spawning season ~
		earthworm treads water

restful river ride 
	sudden stillness sits softly ~
		water nymph pliés...

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the water strider
skims the creek - constant coaxing 
concentric circles


6/23/2022
Summer Nature Themed Haiku
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin

Used HMS 5/7/5...

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There once was a hornet who tried
To build a strange straw nest inside
As soon as grass was cut
He'd bring to his little hut
To spruce up,...

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I had too much to give you
My car it broke right down 
You know I can't forgive you
For making me walk all the way across
This...

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Ants work like busy little bees,                   ...

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I was walking through my garden 
Spraying water on my plants 
I took a few drops from my water can 
And I had given it...

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