Insect Nature Poems

fully communal
a hard-working slave insect
a hermit I am...

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It's mid March
 And does anyone knows
where the ants go 
when it snows
And do they have a beating heart
And if so what does it...

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Bees are coming, bees are coming,
how I love to hear their humming,
tiny wings just drum, drum, drumming;
we’ll be chumming, we’ll be chumming.

We’ll share nectar freely...

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Beeside signs.


One day Humble was in his nursery class learning,
About the A-Bee-See’s;
When the teacher, Miss Guide-Bee, 
Told them all that later that day,
The would bee...

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From the beeginning


A heart beats…
A heart beats again…
A heart beats…and then another.
A heart beats…
And then another
And then another
And then another,
Until the rhythm of the hearts...

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Death Nature 

Oh, how I love nature’s death;
As the season takes it rest;
Taking of its last thread of breath
Alas, climate changes jest;

It’s in death nature...

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“You might think I'm cold-hearted. I am.
I can't afford distractions. I've got work to do.”
Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow #3


She moves in silence, tethered to a...

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I'm smaller and harmless if I'm male
and I have no venom. I'm dangerous 
and much bigger if I'm female. It's hard 
to tell my sex,...

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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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 Tiny faeries in snapdragon beds,
crying, wailing to be fed,
on the nectar brought by bees,
from the nearby hills of green.

Tiny newborns with great hair,
will learn...

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backhoe
digging in the road
mantis

concrete dust in flight-
fog

cricket 
on a window sill
frog

backhoe engine stops
hunger quenched


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weaving a final
resting place~
sleep till the next life



posted on December 9, 2019...

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metamorphosis
~the chrysalid
blossoms



posted on December 9, 2019...

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translucent wings
in flight~
the butterfly



posted on December 9, 2019...

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Swarm of flies lingered
 As they feasted on remains
    Earth swallowed them all




December 8, 2019...

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Up
  on the tenth floor
Out
 my office window 
Dangling
  from a thread 
Swinging
  like an acrobat 
Eight
  little quivering legs 
Swaying
...

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focused praying mantis still as a stick

clueless prey three times its size

best friend of gardeners






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October 13, 2019
F F I series 27 kimo
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              cannibalistic
   a robber fly stabs its prey...
  ...

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In sultry July come wee things that fly
          Up-and-down in a flickering display,
   ...

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