Dots dashes spots splashes
Patterns of Morse code for the bees
Moths and flies fly from skies
Descending from up in the trees
Finding sweet nectar treat
At the tail end of winter freeze
Early blooms fragrant fumes
Wake insects from their winter zzzz
Naturette Poem
8 lines with the following syllable count and rhyme scheme about small finds in nature.
6AA
8B
6CC
8B
6DD
8B
6EE
8B
Necrophila americana
The American Carrion Beetle
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Death
Feeds life
Soft Maggots
Are tasty snacks
Carrion Beetles
Consume flesh and fungus bites
While transplanting mites
Eating what we won’t
Try forcing us
And we may
Prefer
Death
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An Arkquain Poem
Fig
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Sticky fig needs a wasp to fruit
Otherwise it’s all leaves and root
This fact the squeamish may dispute
Tiny wasp pollinates
Leaves eggs and wings along her route
In fig’s sweet flesh, tastes great.
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(A Burns Stanza or Standard Habbie)
Moths
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When the moths no longer welcome me home
I know that winter is soon on the way
It’s sad to slip past the porch light alone
No night flying lovelies amidst the glow
Acknowledging the end of the work day
Tawny and buff with stripes of color for show
They are as compelling as the night sky
Hiding among ridges of bark by day
Emerging at night to dance as they fly
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(A Nocturna Poem)
Katydid
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Nice try katydid but you are no leaf
Stick in cold pause in the October dawn
In slow motion until the cool is gone
Soaking in the sun’s rays for some relief
Up in the boughs you may never be seen
Down on the bark you’re the only thing green
This time of year the cool morning is brief
As sun steals the chill like a sly thief
You’re a target here now so green on the bark
Sure you were safe but it’s no longer dark
As the day brightens it’s nature’s belief
It’s time to conclude your chirps and your trills
Ending the night of adventures and thrills
‘Til dark katydid, go hide on a leaf
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Dogbane Leaf Beetle
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Out in flowering meadows
Under cloudy skies
Are walking rainbows
Six-legged sunrise
Whose iridescence mesmerize
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What is it like to be hiking along a creek in the Vermont woods late on a June afternoon?
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Fighting
Biting
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(A Terse Verse Poem)
Spotted Lanternfly
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They creep and crawl
Curious and confused
In a foreign land
Exploring new plants
Suitable for food
Seemingly adapted to find all leaves
Sufficient as meals and for young to roam
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They creep and crawl
Roots pushing through hardened soils
This plant these bugs know
It’s familiar scent
Repels us humans
But this new insect to the US finds
This foreign tree a postcard from home.
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(A Duodora Poem)
The Four Seasons
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Orion stands up in the sky
Silently unique snowflakes fly
Woodstove full and warmly glowing
With each moment days are growing, lips and skin dry
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Up in the sky Leo now sits
New jeweltone flowers are sunlit
Songbirds are back to raise their young
Cleansing raindrops to dance among, warming a bit.
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Scorpio rises up at night
Flowers everywhere glowing bright
Arm sleeves rolled up over shoulders
Lone bonfire ember smolders, cool sheets just right
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Pegasus marks the shorter days
Trees put on colorful displays
Through fallen leaves hiking boots crunch
Birds and butterflies by the bunch migrate away.
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(A Florette Poem)
Dinner
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Insect
Finds a meal
While leaf
Is rolled
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Patient observer
Searches for
Hole punch.
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(A Septolet Poem)
A Picture and a Poem 