#beetle poems

[distal-dog]

even if fate pulls us apart, i'll always love you.

[plasmapop]

03/04/23 • experiment with parataxis / beetle facts of dubious veracity / help! there’s private language in my beetles / who would put a poem back together if it exploded

[rottedhand]

I want you to squash me like the bug I am.

Kill me with your body weight.

Watch the life drain from my eyes,

Letting the last thing I see be you.

What am I to you?

Beetle? or spider?

Beautiful? Or useful?

Perhaps,

A mosquito?

Love, what am I to you?

Please tell me.

I am not an annoyance to be swatted away,

An embarrassment to all bug kind.

Please tell me,

I am beautiful.

Like the beetle that rest on my thigh.

Have you noticed it?

What else have you noticed?

Please tell me.

[feralgoblin-art]

I saw a rather large beetle (compared to the other beetles I see) on the sidewalk when I went to work yesterday morning. I checked on it a few times after I found it. It moved a bit throughout the morning and then it was gone.

I really liked seeing it and I thought it was very pretty. I took some pictures of it:)

I guess I liked it so much, I was inspired to write poems about it before bed last night/this morning 😂 I hardly remember writing them.

I love the beetle.

The poem says:

Beetle

Hello little friend

I met you on the sidewalk

So little and green

You sit “in the way”

I believe I am in yours

I apologize

- Scissors for scale -

[boybasher]

[earthymama95]

This song won’t leave my mind 🥲

[catilinas]

im going to be asleep by midnight pleeeaaaase <- lying. regretfully

[waanderlussttt]

this beetle crawled on my shoe and held on for about 5 minutes while i walked around before flying off. miss him

[incohorace]

also when i say 'recent' for that poem i mean like. a few months......i sadly havent written any poetry since school ended basically. actually not since exams started so not since may 😔

[abtl]

Eoarchean Downpour

Molten land for the longest time, With no life for eons on end. Not a whisper of life could hold, For the fires not a chance would lend.

"Enough", said the Earth, "Hell no more". As the heat yielded, then came change. At last, life was freed from its chains, The downpour dawning a new age.

A great deluge poured, with no pause, And primordial oceans swelled. Unrecognisable was Earth, For never again would it melt.

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

Strawberry Fields Forever by Ellie White (taken from Vanishing Below the Waist). This poem borrows its title and one line from The Beatles.

[randomrichards]

BLUE BEETLE:

Recent graduate

Forms link with an alien suit

Family stands talll

[queen-of-empathy]

Beetle

I spent summer on my back like a beetle

holding up my legs to dance for you and everything in between us, undignified

but shining blue black under your light

you found the colours in my shell and

held them up to be admired, you told me

that nothing earthly compared to their beauty

so I tucked in my wings and learned how to sing about the beauty of the sky

and the benefits of staying still

I shut every single pair of eyes

as if I could keep you with sheer will

you could have picked me up and put me back down on my little feet

you could have done that at least

[clavainov]

week 15 2023 - this week chased happiness by making a small clay cat and venturing into the foothills

[womanfromthewell]

And I will bleed as the ladybird does

As a reflex

To warn those who come to do me harm

I am not easy prey

[isawhitney]

Catching a truth in your hand is the same as catching a bug.

Look away. Avoid its gaze, play at nonchalance.

Maybe try to stretch out your sentences, or linger over every word

Like it’s somebody you love. Oh, distract yourself

A little and almost forget what’s false in the wash, but then

Quick!

Now!

Jump!