Insect Personification Poems

Six quick legs scurry the dank tunnels.
Where I trek eyes are not needed,
For us, the scents are roadsigns
And I count my paces like mileposts.

Our lives...

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I am the monarch of the sky
can outdistance by the miles
every insect, every time
heavy rain or bright sunshine
like a fearless horse I run 
in the...

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From another tree about 10 feet away, I, a sparrow,
reserved 4 powerful words for an insect in the midst
of developing. She would become a butterfly,...

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Flying from diverse flowers to trees
Pollinating from dawn to sunset
Collecting pollen to feed my offspring
Producing  rich and golden honey

Hundreds of bees share the hive
Working...

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I’m just a humble earthworm
Way down low on nature’s list
But life would be the poorer 
If we worms did not exist.
We burrow down beneath the...

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I am a tiny winged buzzing insect
A friend to folks and flowers alike
Another name for hard work
Toiling untiring from dawn to dusk

I set out merry,...

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In the morning dew
          redolent sounds 
         ...

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I am a honeybee, 
an indefatigable worker 
I work just as hard as an ant.
I don't work alone, of course
I have a colony behind me!
I'm...

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on reconnaissance missions
efficient feisty warrior
in stealth mode
hovers steady
deliberate
she glides
intent



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on May 15, 2020...

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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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Butterfly

Envy eats you
as I flutter by
all eyes on me

It is hard for me
to pay you heed
when I fly in mid-air

You try to pick me
from the...

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A lonely ant did stutter-step
  'cross barren, friendless pavement 
     one chill Fall day in late November
   ...

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I came in a tattered old box,
the grand size of a man's shoebox.
I knew that I was unwanted,
around a big empty house I wandered.
On a...

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You may think it's cushy sat here on my throne
But life at the top bears a price of its own.
For though I get fed with...

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Here I sit on the ocean bed
Just sifting mud and ooze,
But If it was up to me
It's not the life I'd choose.

It's dark down here,...

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