Category Archives: insect

Beauty-Blind Bees [Haiku]

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a plain, green plant
 crawls with bees-o-plenty: 
  despite no bright blooms.

Golden Yellow [Haiku]

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lurch & stop:
 the bee moves erratically
  amid yellow blooms.

So Many Eyes [Haiku]

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one butterfly:
 with so many eyes 
  that cannot see.

Stag Beetle [Haiku]

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a stag beetle
 lifts pincers in warning;
  tender flesh at feet.

Hover Quandary [Haiku]

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a bee hovers
 between two wildflowers,
  in a quandary.

Bee’s Weight [Haiku]

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flowers dip
 under a bee’s weight, 
  but spring back.

Twins, Or: Spastic Gravity [Haiku]

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twin butterflies 
 spiral around each other
  with spastic gravity.

Mantis Moves [Haiku]

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in stillness,
 the mantis becomes
  vegetation.

Owl? Moth? Owl-Moth [Tanka]

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on a tree, the moth
 looks like a pair of eyes framed
  in a hidey-hole.
 on marble steps, the moth
  just looks like a moth.

Spotless [Common Meter]

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The Ladybug of my childhood
 had polka-dots of black,
  adorning the split red shell
   that covered its wings and back.

So, who erased this bug's black dots
 to make it less dice-like,
  making it a Lady in red?
   Said thief can take a hike.

I had so many fine questions,
 but it just flew away.
  Maybe a bug somewhere out there
   has more spots coming its way.