Insect Nature Poems

butterflies and bees
     pollinating the flowers
          spreading new beauty
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blackfly season on
nature trails best feeding ground
~ smorgasbord delight...

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Butterless flies flutter by
and dragons without fire fly.
	Over and under, 
	curious wonder.
Nature’s tricks do mystify....

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A june bug, flying at night, races to a window light
To the greens behind the sill, fleeing from the twilight's chill
But alas! The window is...

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Carpenter bee buzzing
and drilling
sawdust spirals down
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Little Arabella Miller lived in town, but far enough out in green country,
To watch the raspberry sun go down, and to climb a lavish, plum...

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Air getting humid
Summer peaks around corner
Cicadas singing...

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first night—
the soul’s fringe still shining hazily
the last night—
as though knowing time has come
morning comes—
a firefly spends all its light

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A graceful  g l o w~
a belly-flicking thrill,         
       ...

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Strands of silk, thinner than a breath,
spun with a patience we rarely possess.
An invisible architecture revealed
by a bead of morning dew,
a sudden glint of sun.

Intricate.

A...

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There’s something in the air again.?
It’s not the pollen?
That brings the sniffles,?
And it’s not the sun?
Lingering longer in the sky’s soft cradle.

It’s not the fireflies,?
Singing...

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Trumpet-like lilies by the lake
preen for the flamboyant flamingo,
sifting through the murky waters,
searching for algae and shrimp
where crawdads click and clatter.

While silvery fish glide stealthily
leaving...

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venus flytrap waits
for the next insect to come
for her next good meal...

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infant shoots grass dew
red ants single file march bold
april first mow day...

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Snowflakes are hexagonal
As are honeycomb cells
Insects are 6-legged
A die cast has 6 faces
The 6 degrees of separation
Connects us all to our 6...

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