Category Archives: insect

Cheeky Crawler [Free Verse]

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Photograph of a bug on a Fleabane wildflower on Namsan, south of Gyeongju, South Korea.
Does the bug
   atop a wildflower
 think itself master
   of all it surveys?

PROMPT: Snack

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Daily writing prompt
What snack would you eat right now?
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Fried crickets.

Autumn Grasshopper [Tanka]

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A grasshopper hanging on a branch of desiccated leaves at the end of Autumn.
climbing grasshopper
 clings to gently bouncing branch;
  sure to fall
 before the next crunchy leaf
 succumbs to Autumn breezes.

Hive [Haiku]

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massive hives
 hang from high branches;
  no bees in sight.

Great Mormon [Haiku]

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Great Mormon Butterfly [Papilio Memnon]
Great Mormon
 flaps its wings spastically,
  yet hovers in place.

Forfeit [Haiku]

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brown moth blends against bare earth,
 'til footfall tremor sends it lurching.

Claustrophobic [Haiku]

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carpenter bee
 crawls into clock vine bloom;
  freefalls into flight.

Transitory [Haiku]

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butterfly lands
 on flower, pumps wings twice,
  and sputters off.

Bell Pavilion [Haiku]

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Summer night: 
 bell pavilion - silent,
  but for cricket chirp.

Grasshopper [Haiku]

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Grasshopper rests on a leaf;
 Untroubled by undulations.