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POEMS TO BUGS

Winter frost: one only prays that grasshoppers' souls are taken from their bodies and that they know no pain of freezing to death

SWALLOWTAILS

One heard the word swallowtail..

and thought of a yogi who
had conquered hormones
or comet-devouring space
or a butterfly who had
escaped
the sadism of the lepidopterist

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Footnote:

Painted Ladies, Jewel Wings.. the names of
butterflies are
a litany of poetry..
God protect them
from biologists and lepidopterists

EMBEZZLING BEE

Sweet bloom, can you forgive
the embezzling bee,
the guzzling bee,
the buzzing bee
who took some of your daily
nectar but left you
unharmed as he spread
your fragrance through the trees?

FLAGS

Black flags sometimes
signify bug killers
White flags sometimes
symbolize a surrender
to temptation.
Red flags clang for
attention
... but flowers' rainbow
hued flags are nonviolent,
silent, and aligned to God.

GLOWWORMS AND FIREFLIES

The bird snuffed
the lights
of glowworms and
fireflies
as night scotches
the fires of
the sun in the sky.
Yet morning reveals
the sun remains
while God reveals
the little ones are
with Her.

* white flags.. not meant
as a criticism of those heroes
who conscientiously object to
war or refuse to kill in battle

CAVES OF JOY

only time determines when
we enter our own
inner and infinite
caves of joy

COCKROACH

Oh a c o c kroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth.
For he magnetizes to ones home those who love every heart.https://twitter.com/SaiomShriver9/status/848602693551697922

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Groundnesting birds, frogs, snakes, butterflies,
fireflies, lady bugs, beehives and anthills
... all sliced or crushed by
harvesters, lawnmowers and other machines

SLUG

Said the pompous praying mantis
to the little bug
.. " you are an irreverent
possessed slug"

Said the termite destroying
nonstone buildings:
"You are a lazy slug"

Said the winter prepared moth
after eating others'
wool clothes
"You are an unthinking slug"
(after all he only ate
what others had stolen)

Said the spider setting traps
to kill
"You are a naive slug"

And she retired and built
a cocoon
a private room
and out of it came
a monarch butterfly
..
but straightway it fluttered
into the spider's et

and the other 4 bugs
said
"See we were right all along"

but her wings were made of light
.. no earthly web could hold them
and she soared away
to a kinder place

(to the universal compassion of Joan Beth Clair)

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CATERPILLAR TOLERANCE

Oh God, how many caterpillars must
I tolerate, said the plant.
My size diminishes while
their size is trebling
as on my leaves they are
constantly nibbling.
And God replied..
I will confine them to only
two of your leaves..
so please now..
stop your quibbling
my favorite liebling.

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-saiom shriver-