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Insect Poems | Examples of Insect Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for insect.
Premium Member A Spider is Not an Insect
This 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Wicked Web
The 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....Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Exceeding Credulity Limit
Oh, 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....Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member HE SPREADS THE GENES
Drooping 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...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Six Dogs
Six 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...Read the rest...
Categories: cry, death, dog, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tanka XXII
a Red Admiral in garden's scented grounds wings open and closed cherry blossom breezes blows gate open and closed...Read the rest...
Categories: insect,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Dawn's Enchanted Meadow
You 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...Read the rest...
Categories: insect, beauty, bird, butterfly, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Bug Collector
Brush 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...Read the rest...
Categories: children, cute, happy, insect,
Form: Couplet
The Fly
I sat and watched as it continually banged it's head into the window pane, that fly. My cat sits on the cill and swipes out at the fly as it buzzes around his head, But he missed...Read the rest...
Categories: crazy, emotions, feelings, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zen
"Zzzzzzz!" goes a bothersome bee up close, yet so Eerily s t i l l was the meditating Tibetan monk; Nothing seems to faze him in a trance-like state. ...Read the rest...
Categories: imagery, insect, peace, sound,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Cicada Rumble - or 1803 plus 13 times 17 equals 2024
It's been a long time since the cicadas rumbled. History books say 'twas eighteen hundred and three When war struck the trees where bees sometimes bumbled. The seventeen and thirteen boys couldn't agree. The horror of those days can't...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, insect, math, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Arachnid
Behold a monster Intricate wonders within Weaving fragile threads...Read the rest...
Categories: insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Common Butterfly
I am the queen of beauty the common butterfly, I spread my wings and flap away among the trees I fly. My wings exhibit colours of green yellow and blue, red, orange and brown and even...Read the rest...
Categories: insect, beautiful, beauty, butterfly, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crown of Creation
Mosquitos beat their wings Man beats his chest In order to prove that he is the best Mankind maintains he’s ...Read the rest...
Categories: humanity, insect,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Insect Poems

Definition | What is Insect in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs