Short Grasshoppers Poems

On verdant grass lay
Grasshoppers invite to play,
One midsummer day....

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Swallows fly and swallow flies 
While grasshoppers hide in grass hiders...

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Magi Cicada

                stir the myrrh

         sing exaltation...

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grasshoppers cling to
the driest of all corn cleaves
and get wiped away

07 August 2021...

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THE GRASSHOPPERS TALE 

It was not my ambition to be born and bred
Just so that darn flamin’ Gecko could be fed

Indiana Shaw . . . : (...

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Fat sassy grasshoppers smile at each other
As they sway to the waltz of the waving grain
In the last wind of summer
Which blows through an azure sky.....

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The short-horned grasshoppers are here.
Not a great morn to walk with the deer.
They came in a form
A gigantic swarm.
Taunting, laughing, ready to jeer....

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Nature's Fine Scenes

grasshoppers jump
broken down fence
little farmhouse

Robert J. Lindley 
Than-Bauk

Note : 
My first try at using this poetry form....

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You whispered. 
And ragged butterflies bled into the earth, 
Grasshoppers cut through clouds, 
And in mounds, roses grinned their jagged teeth
Quietly tucked in satin....

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Grasshopper hunter
Gathered grasshoppers
In one container he put them
By morning they had eaten
One another to skeletons
But he stood aside laughing
At the foolish hoppers...

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Grasshopper and the ants were having a laid-back day
They did what they wanted, snoozing and snoring away
The meadow was breezily uplifting, sharing her grasses.
I like being here with my friends, the lads and the lasses....

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bending tree branches 
each little flower smile-filled ---
spirit romantic 

earth is green covered
no kernel of mud is seen ---
crickets stridulate 

green arches of trees
stand welcoming the sunbeams ---
grasshoppers concert...

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orange blossom scent
drifted from the verdant trees
as grasshoppers leapt

wildflowers blossomed
and birds sang from green mansions
as spun gold poured down

butterflies wandered
winding river found its way
round the rugged hills...

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small hand in mine
and endless chatter
not the words
but the song of them lift me
we catch the clouds
we sit in the grass
grasshoppers
cold water
cool shade
sweet eyes catch me up
and off we go
breaking time in the field
no one can find us
we're lost today...

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Miniature storm troopers have landed
On my hot pink knock out roses
In the forms of grasshoppers and toads.
Trampling them, and hurting their feelings.
Garden faeries are getting ready to form a protest rally.
Get out of  my way!
Where did I put my Darth Vader Mask?...

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The daisies laughed as the day unspun.
A faerie frog dance encouraged the grass.
Tulips stretched to see the merriment.
Flute music was heard, musician unseen.
Grasshoppers and butterflies appeared out of the sky.
Spring time in the meadow encouraged by Mother Nature....

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dancin' in Puddles
sometimes getzya wet
with elements worthy
tho oft taught discouragely.

I like mud 'tween my toes
Don't like grass up my nose
Grasshoppers are cool
So is old school 

And new school is too
believe it or not
more pends on the care tos
than clutchin to..... whot?...

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SASKATCHEWAN  SUMMER  EVENING



Porch light spreads weakly out
Into the field and dissipates
In the buzz of grasshoppers.
Starlight and fireflies; crickets chirp.
Hot air shimmers the lights of the far highway.
Grain train pulls out, juddering
And clanging its slow way to speedy freedom....

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parachute daring
gliding blue skies like a bird
colorful sunset

a lily pad leap
from the house of vivid blooms
frogs and grasshoppers

ballet dancer twirls
ballerina grand jete
multicolored lights

dolphins jumping high
chasing the maroon dawn sun
green waves crest and fall...

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I am chasing grasshoppers in the yard
Such a fun filled thing
The grasshopper always one jump ahead
And I, panting hard
Only want a couple to bring
And set before my students' eyes
So they may look and realize
The investment God has made in us
And bridge the vault of fear with trust....

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Sinfonie der Einsamkeit
Gesang der Zikaden
Wie Blätterrauschen

Stille über den den Bergen
Im hellen Schein des Vollmonds

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Symphony of solitude
Songs of grasshoppers
Like murmur of leaves

Silence captured the mountains
In a clear light of full moon...

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looking back when i was growing up
i can fondly remember the subtle breeze 
so fine and smooth
as a dandilion blowing underneath 
a weeping willow tree
i shall remember grasshoppers with one leg
i pleasantly smell the dampness 
of a butterflies cocoon under the porch
crab apples and then
it's spring again...

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if a frog hops
a fish jumps
a kangaroo hops
and a rabbit jumps
grasshoppers hops
some to the tree tops
daddy, daddy make them stop



WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
 -they go up they come down to back to the ground
where are they now???


12/2/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2020©...

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No one was aware of when
The surroundings were
Silent and slant

From near to far,
Mosquitoes were disappeared
Flies have gone,
And grasshoppers went

Looked up to the sky
Warblers were nowhere
Swallows were absent

Moved down to the tree
A few sparrows twitted
Where hid the old Sam?
They are full of curiosity...

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Music of the Night

Summer nights of back porch gospels
 Choirs of crickets – cicada harmonies
Bass lines full of bull frogs croaking
 Grasshoppers toe tapping all in time
Neon rhythms of lightning bugs – 
 Cadence of Katydid’s chirping beats -  
Phantom fireflies - soul music of the night.

6/21/20
Contest: On Broadway
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Theme #1...

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