Woman Insect Poems

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Silly Masqued Cough It

Silly masqued cough it,
sassed out her topic,
eating her words and...

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To a Louse
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hey! Where're you going, you crawling hair-fly?
Your impudence protects you, barely;
I can only say that you swagger...

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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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COCKROACH...!!!
            Scream my desperate daughters ...
            - Mom, kill the cockroach ...!
            I ask because mom
            and not the father ...!?
            - What's the reason...

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On a Patio in Central Pennsylvania

		Slowly     patiently     silently
		a stink bug descends
		toward my white-haired woman.
		She is undeterred
		by the...

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Villanelle: Nothing human insect bird animal is not woman

Nothing human insect bird animal is not woman
E'en animals lock horns to deserve right to propagate
She's Man...

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I made a U turn at dusk as dark night creeps  upon me
I tried to catch my breath from the horrible smell that was...

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DEATH OF A MOSQUITO


Kind of a party, a get-together for friends,
Free wheeling, snacking here and there  -
You know how it goes.

Warm afternoon - moist...

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an old woman
sitting outside in the dark—
fireflies...

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Just letting my dogs out
each summer night
can cause me to panic,
because they're waiting each night
as I turn on the porch light,
it seems the bugs are...

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Happy As A Bug

Happy bug got stepped on today insuring death
Ending its existence from a lineage stretching back
Billions of years his species started off in...

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