Short Aphids Poems

Green aphids feeding
red roses gasping for breath
gardner too busy...

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brown plant stems now green
succulent new flower buds
aphids thick coating...

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 two red rose blossoms
announce summer with brightness...
blue jay dines on aphids ...

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doditsu

Nature knows that smell forbids.
Aphids avoid marigolds.
Match for a reflex magnet
in your berry patch.

March 9, 2011
It's a Do-Do kinda day, by Francine Roberts...

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Found in fields and forests			
Feeds on slugs and aphids
Friendly towards gardens
For us, a light of hope
For courtship purposes 
Flashing light, it displays
Firefly is magical...

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Yellow fire hazards blemish the lawn,
prickly to bare summer feet.
Locusts overtake the heat.
Aphids feast and continue to spawn,
yet still remain strawberries to eat.

7-8-2021...

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as cool breeze blows
leaves turn yellow,orange and red...
shedding of leaves

leaf peepers seen
as red apples attract birds...
aphids repelled

Runik and Rose born
as this foliage displays splendor...
 long life lingers....

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Through the manicured lawn hate crept  eating
soil
It hid its face
  the sun and moon soon spied the long shadow
by
watching the aphids
run and hide
This I took as divine right
 and smothered hate within a killing jar

:: 02.25.2016 ::...

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munching on aphids
perched atop an aspen leaf ~
         a lone ladybug



Submitted for...
Spring Haiku - Traditional Form Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Syllables checked at www.howmanysyllables.com
Date written: 03/27/2021...

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Ladybug

The Beauty of a Ladybug,
Sitting on a twig near a stream.
Tiny white spots on crimson coat,
Now I ponder and I dream.
They munch all day on Aphids,
Much to a Gardeners delight.
Protecting their plants and flowers,
Our Ladybug is a welcome site.



Edited for Juli-Michele's contest
Rhyme Battle XI

4.10.18...

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Sleep is a bride I can never find,
not on nights behind this steering wheel
Night spiders and aphids are on my mind
and watching them explore my windshield feels almost surreal

The lights of the lot illuminate this new playground
a concrete field dotted with strays
The lively twilight nature makes is sound
as hungry dogs come out to play...

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i was a child, pushing aphids into and popping them under my fingernails, letting their green corpses gather like dirt before sucking my fingertips clean.
my mother caught me and slapped my hands away from my mouth with a disgusted grunt. 
i felt embarassed but acted ashamed, continuing my compulsion in secret; then, in two decades' time, i became an aphid....

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Ladybugs are beetles.
They eat aphids and mites, too.
They are red and spotted.
I love ladybugs, don't you?

Bonus activity: Inform children that ladybugs are a gardener's friend, as they devour 
the aphids and spider mites that destroy a gardener's plants. Some gardeners even 
purchase ladybugs from home and garden centers to sprinkle on their plants!...

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Dear little insect
                         «Our Lady's Bird» bring good luck
                                               ~
                                     Aphids for supper
                               a red robe with seven dots
                               Virgin Mary sent from God









08.07.2018
Sun :) A-L Andresen :)
Tanka: 5-7-5-7-7 syllable...

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Sundrops dapple umbrageous trees 
strewing uncut diamonds, littering the path
with ambient flickers of what lies beyond.

Sundrops freckle ocean's surface
accenting the ripples that pattern the waves,
nuzzling playful kisses toward the warm beach.

Sundrops seduce the wayward wind
pirouetting with the aphids blissful dance,
a frenzied tarantella across my lips....

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I found a large glass container in an antique store.
My panoptic vision for it became so much more...
A bottle garden that would bring me such pleasure,
so, it grew into a tiny jungle of plants to treasure.
I nurtured it quite tenderly for almost two years
but one morning, what I found left me in tears.
Tiny mites and aphids stripped all the foliage clean.
I'll burn my bottle garden and pests with kerosene....

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So still, she holds herself. No sound,
hanging there as if suspended;
reverses back and darts around,
back then to the flower intended.

Tiny fizzing wings scarcely seen,
folded now, she alights to taste
the nectar there, such sweet cuisine,
then off above the bloom she's graced.

Thank you my pollinator friend
for laying larvae to devour
those aphids. May they meet their end
and so allow the plants to flower....

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I'm the fairy of the garden
I protect it, cure and guard it
from the beetles and the lice
and the army of the aphids
I'm revered, I'm beloved
like a queen around the globe
even preserved from the cold
jealously kept more than gold
I eat aphids, I eat lice
I' m pretty, red and spotted 
save the crops, save the oranges
after Our Lady named appropriate.

3/13/23

Third Place: Constance La France- Writing Challenge L Word Contest Poetry Contest...

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midday a blackbird
feeding on a fat ball
look a butterfly

a large cabbage white
will it find a partner
blackbird eating fat

bluetit checking out
a bird box mid-summer
ravenous starlings

woodpigeons on the 
fat balls also taking grain
the garden in bloom

house sparrows taking
aphids off the roses
ladybirds not one

one joy i've noted
indoors no flies at all
no nighttime moths sad











 

N.B. anon...

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