Insect Sonnet Poems

We see them all as pests to be destroyed.       
For they feed upon our food crops galore.  ...

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I see you through the purple flowers. 
Heart churning in your chest. 
Sitting cross legged, pumped with powers.
Crowning chastity through your crest.

Wildflowers hear your song,...

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O Little Earth, You Present Fruits Of Primal Seed

O little earth, wonder rests in thy glorious all
You allow mankind but what is he truly worth
Is...

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Oh gentle and harmless creature with wings!
Didst thou the most delightful message bring,
or didst thou the wordless serenade sing?
Thou pleasant kisser whose touch never stings;
angelic...

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Spring is not all it is made out to be
There are swarming black flies, blood thirsty ticks
Caterpillar invade, like a movie
Finding yourself constantly, trying to...

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The trees unfurl their buds and blossoms cheer.
Howdy-do Spring…achoo…grab a tissue.
Grass grows Godiva-strong. It’s as I fear -
For all your beauty brag, I’ve an issue.

Here...

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Once I saw a purplish oblong tangerine,
Standing near the hydrant on Sixty-first
I wondered what it could possibly mean, 
Then, I was overcome with dreadful thirst
When...

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Be nice to me. I’m just a little bee
that works so hard to see my hive succeed.
Why does it seem like you’re afraid of me?
I...

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Bug 

On my blue-lined writing pad, a tiny incest walk
It appears hesitant and lost before crossing a line
Lost in the vast wilderness. of the unwritten.
I...

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C7

 No bigger than a drop of blood on a finger 
pricked by a thorn, it marches along 
the stem of a rosebush; a Grenadier...

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Moving in silence, tethered to a thread
of silk, she is both beautiful and dark.
One bite and her prey can't move, though not dead,
for slurping her...

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Slum

Where hard looks and thin soup oppose,
the spider, cockroach, rat, and mouse dispute
in patient litigation or in border raids
our title to this world. 

There is...

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to the Lighting bug- -SHINES MY LOVE



My lighting bug, you ignite me to sight;
The way you're blinking bright and soar;
Parading my mind day in through...

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They said that she was ugly, fat, and shy.
She went her way to shameful words and sneers.
Ignored or worse by those who passed her by,
She'd...

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Dragonfly Afloat On The Lake

A dragonfly afloat on the lake
Flaps its wings to keep from drowning.
With its life in the balance, it senses hope,
And boards...

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