Bugs

The Honey Bee

Oh honey bee you buzz so soft

Against the summers wind

You spread the seeds of beauty

So the colors can bloom again

Honey bee oh honey bee

With honey in my milk

The flowers on my tabletop

Have petals so like silk

Honey bee oh honey bee

Where is your queen indeed?

You mate with her and give her food

In her you plant your seed

Your drawn to what is soft and sweet

Flowers who cannot move

Their posture sweet, compliant

Pledging to give you food.

Is that what makes your service right

What makes your service good?

The giving flowers waiting and

Always providing food?

Your queen awaits you clean her room

You make sure that she eats

If she dies your family will know

A natural defeat

Honey bee oh honey bee

The world oh so needs you

I remember honeybee, my love

That you need those flowers too.

The Butterfly

The butterfly, the butterfly

Fought against the wind

Flying hard with pretty wings

Beating to summers hymn

Fuzzy worm crawling no more

He grew in a cocoon

And fought with strength to emerge

In the heat of summers high noon

Black and gold and wonderful

The butterfly so looks

For his mate to procreate

Along the mountain brook

He started out inching forth

Along the limb of a tree

Eating nonstop the greenest leaves

Set on finding me

He drank the nectars of the field

And when he saw me there

He flew to me with boldened wings

Seducing me with his flare

The days of inching forth are done

We flutter together now

We dance together in the air

Simply ‘cos we know how

Black and gold and wonderful

We plant our seeds again

To watch the life of a catepillar

Fight to fly again.

The Mosquito

They whine nonstop in summer’s heat

Their whine constant, need not repeat

They flourish in the swampy mud

Craving life, craving your blood

I ran from them and ran to you

My wounds a reddened bloody hue

You saved me and you held me tight

Appeasing my ignited fright

Scars were then left everywhere

Their whine permeating the thin air

You grabbed my hand and ran with me

Away from that sad swampy tree

They followed us and we ran

They were spread out along the land

We shut the door you held me tight

And rubbed my wounds in the moonlight

I cannot get rid of the bug

Despite our rampant singing love

One followed us into our room

I saw it in the light of the moon

I let him land upon my arm

And let him do his plotted harm

And once so fattened with my blood

Tried to fly far up above

Slow flying from his given feast

I followed the fat tiny beast

And with you watching in the room

Upon my victim I did loom

I caught him in my hands you see

Because of what it did to me

You smiled at it’s tiny death

And now I could finally rest

I sleep with you now patiently

But I remember the swampy tree

And sometimes in the quiet night

Their whine does waken me in fright.

The Praying Mantis

I was born

in the posture

of

constant

Hope.

Amen.

The Fly

Oh my dear, what can I say

I’m in your face every good day

Reminding you that I love death

I’m waiting for your final rest

Sure! I carry dark disease

And I spread it with good ease

I’m hunting for death day and night

Despite your childish whims and frights

Oh reader if you only knew

Of what was good and what as true

Of my role in this strange world

My reasons lost in the great whirl

If bodies lay around so dead

There’d be no room for life instead

Full Death would not so come to thee

So I’m important now you see-

I feast upon the still and gone

It not all life would go all wrong

So when your done living your life

Death will come without cursed strife

You hold her now upon your bed

Wishing that you’ll ne’er be dead

But one day I’ll feast upon you

Because death comes that’s good and true

And when you lay her your last kiss

You’ll lay in bed old age in bliss

And life will then become repose

But life goes on and this I know-

So love me reader I entreat

And see me not as your defeat

I pass you onto the next life

You will rejoin your lovely wife

Swat me away but I will stay

As death will come I’ll get my way

And pass you unto the next life

So kiss your lovely, lovely wife.