“Illusion” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]

   Walking beside the tree-peonies,
I saw a beetle
Whose wings were of black lacquer spotted with milk.
I would have caught it,
But it ran from me swiftly
And hid under the stone lotus
Which supports the Statue of Buddha.

Stag Beetle [Haiku]

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