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Katydid Poems - Poems about Katydid

Premium Member Opal Dreams and Gold Gleams
... Written: May 31st, 2025, For contest: By Joseph May ******************** "The stars beckoned her song to reach the crescent moon." A sonata spun in silver, diaph......

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Categories: katydid, appreciation, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leaf
... The leaf caught my eye- began moving with no breeze! Oh Katydid- by God's magic, you survive!......

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Categories: katydid, life, surreal,
Form: Verse



Sing Spring
... Scavenging squirrels search for acorns, scratching old stumps from trees. Scampering up my sugar maple, they steal my bird feeder seeds. Sleepy salamanders wake from their slumber to search on ......

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Categories: katydid, butterfly, imagery, rainbow, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Camouflage is Her Game
...Insects are terrific at camouflage Many blend into bushes and trees Leaf katydid doesn’t move or dodge Lying still during autumn breeze With her oranges yellows and bits of green Leaf katydid ......

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Categories: katydid, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Insects and their Feelers
...Unusual insect facts are fun to know Creatures with long feelers use the night Short feeler insects have better sight Antennas sense enemies around and below Cicada, dragonflies and honey bees ......

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Categories: katydid, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Return of the Katydids
...Scratched music of hillbilly washboards From the scraping wings of the Katydids Aloft in the Oaks Reborn each night just beyond dusk After the cicadas finish their warmup act The Katydid retur......

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Categories: katydid, earth, insect, music, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shoo
...I was a competent, happy housewife, but that was before my husband died, Leaving me to rear myriad children solo, as the lone star twinkles with pride. John had left us a prosperous farm,......

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Categories: katydid, age, children, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Waning Twilight
... Written: March 09, 2024 For Charlotte Puddifoot Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ with serendipitous moans—ocean lulls It's russet embers ......

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Categories: katydid, longing, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Along Windy Way
... Written: November 28, 2023 ______________________________________ Beneath the sweltering luminescent sky. A thunderbolt flared over the silent firefly. Oak-smoke tone......

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Categories: katydid, analogy, appreciation, betrayal, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Darkest
...In the semblance of my darkest side lie the sunlight after me, In the dark blue face was a smile that only a select few could see. Only a few that fishes like me when we see the snakefish May......

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Categories: katydid, abuse, addiction, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Katydid's Last Song
...The warm hour after sunset in summer Has long passed So fast from these trees In between Just before the first freeze Katydid clicks with half her strength In the not-quite-right October su......

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Categories: katydid, autumn, betrayal, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sounds of the Forest
...Songbirds are singing, voices are ringing, morning arrives in the vale. Hummingbirds humming, woodpeckers drumming: everything hearty and hale! Throughout the forest: katydid chorus; Barn o......

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Categories: katydid, eve, morning, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strange But True
...The average person laughs 13 times a day I laugh a lot more often than that In fact I probably hold the world record Maybe three or four times that in fact A katydid hears through holes......

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Categories: katydid, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Schindler's List-Music, Melody
...Oh, that music from the movie, so impassions me! That haunting violin, with its moving virtuosity. Notes fill the air of man's most craven inhumanity to man. The reminder that it can indeed,......

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Categories: katydid, betrayal, humanity, inspiration, jewish,
Form: Couplet
She Is the Music To My Ears
...She is the music to my ears; An impetus behind my cheers; She jubilantly sings dawn jingles, along with bird friends in the jungle. She perforates the bamboo stems and forges the eternal music......

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Categories: katydid, happiness, happy, nature, song,
Form: Free verse

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