Insect Poems - Examples of all types of insect poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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billions to trillionsseventeen-year wait
cicadas’ sweet serenade …
tinnitus is cured...
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Categories:
flying, insect,
Form: Haiku
ANSY ANT HILL
brown specs mound hill like
sand, grains of sugar-salt midst
the top of the ground
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twit the grass flowing
ripples running ants on and
climb over ant hills
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
5/15/2024
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Categories:
community, engagement, environment, insect,
Form: Haiku
Only Ten Shopping Days 'til the Locusts
Only ten shopping days ‘til the locusts arrive
What on earth should I buy them
I’ve scoured the stores, and what’s more
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Categories:
giving, humor, insect, stress,
Form: Rhyme
A fly lights on me- shoo flylate spring so I spy
a fly goes by he wheezing
buzzing in mine ear
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so I swat at him
and then say hey what's up, yo
me don't stink what's up
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buzzing in mine ear
no stinky here...
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Categories:
insect, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Haiku
THE CATERPILLARThis caterpillar
Fell out the tree
Fell out the tree
Fell out the tree
This caterpillar
Fell out the tree
Now he can’t see
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Categories:
3rd grade, insect, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Coccinellidae: updated
Categories:
garden, insect, summer,
Form: Haiku
A Spider is Not an InsectThis poet has most incorrectly checked
The little box which indicates "insect."
This poem, I therefore flatly reject.
I sharply reproach the writer.
A spider, never an insect, was.
I say this insistently because,...
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Categories:
humor, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Wicked WebThe spider, a wicked web, does weave,
But he doesn’t do this to deceive.
He just wants a pleasant place to walk
After putting on ev’ry shoe and sock....
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Categories:
humor, insect,
Form: Couplet
Exceeding Credulity LimitOh, what a lovely web we dost weave
When first we practice to deceive.
What, on our next try, we conceive
Is too much B.S. to believe....
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Categories:
humor, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Why Does a Spider Have Eight Legs?Two of them are for the steering wheel;
To drive unsafely is to be a heel.
One is to make penciled calculations;
To make missteps is to spoil relations.
Two more make amorous advances;
Based on calculations, he...
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Categories:
humor, insect,
Form: Couplet
HE SPREADS THE GENESDrooping petals of ermine white
mark end of winter days.
Then there follows the purple bright
of first saffron displays.
Our world of dismal grey departs
as comes the colour show
to raise the spirit of our hearts
by bringing warming...
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Categories:
animal, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Six DogsSix dogs die
And one guy cries
the dogs are not political
Oh! My, My,
Don’t you know?
Deaths are always political
Be it mosquitoes or a martyr
Someone’s always there to take credit
to call them pest or bravehearts
to declare them something
to...
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Categories:
cry, death, dog, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Tanka XXIIa Red Admiral
in garden's scented grounds
wings open and closed
cherry blossom breezes
blows gate open and closed...
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Categories:
insect,
Form: Tanka
Dawn's Enchanted MeadowYou say you caught a miserable cold, child,
And mother won’t let you play?
“When dawn drifts into enchanted meadows”
Is just the tale for you today!
The silent meadow comes alive at dawn
With the songs of a hundred...
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Categories:
insect, beauty, bird, butterfly, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Bug CollectorBrush off your ant bites.
Blind eye the hornets sting.
Gone so long with ways of violence.
Creatures having done nothing wrong.
But it’s fine “they aren’t important”.
Legs or wings or hair you just can’t bare.
Squash and flush because...
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Categories:
children, cute, happy, insect,
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Insect Poems
Definition | What is Insect in Poetry?
Poems Related to Insect
tick, vermin, pest, mite, bee, fly, louse, arachnid, butterfly, gnat, dragonfly, moth, grasshopper, spider, cockroach, termite, ant, mosquito, beetle, flea, fruit fly, aphid, ladybug, cootie, bumblebee, bedbug, arthropod, hornet, daddy longlegs, praying mantis, yellowjacket,