Insect

insect

(9/30/01)

_________First Place__________

morning light

in the spider's web

a broken moth

sheila Windsor

fireflies

his pipe glows brighter

in the gazebo

Darrell Byrd

 ________Second Place________

sickroom

neither of us mention

the flies

--roberta beary

 _________Third Place________

spring cleaning

the dead moth crumbles

between my fingers

Sue

even young crickets

know the word's

to last year's songs

mary seabright

_________Below Third Place________

a spider in the bathtub

   my ex calls me

gary steinberg

tiny pool

a dragonfly taps

it's stillness

Linda Robeck

morning light

two beetles dying

at the door

Martin Gottlieb Cohen

a painted lady

lingers in the last sweet peas

Indian summer

DeVar

concert in the park -

a centipede clings

to the grass blade

Kathy Lippard Cobb

the falling lead

curled into itself

a caterpillar

Carol Raisfield

monsoon:

fleas won't bother this dog

again

~ eos

opening the door

to the moon, a moth

rushes out

Rob Scott

end of summer

the cicadas

are silent

Jaloe

a dead wasp

on the windowsill-

first frost

Marylouise Knight

solitary walk

a moth flutters

in street light

oga

deep meditation

a jumping spider jumps

from monk to monk

Tore Sverredal

autumn gourds

mountain climbing

for lady bugs

Nancy Smith

last picnic

on a hot fall day

ants arrive late

Patricia A. Laurent

ants marching

over hill and dale

across Buddha's toes

Rose Marie Stutts

first autumn frost

the monks release crickets

into the greenhouse

Edward

Watching the spider

-- quietly letting the day

spins its web

Angèle Lux

worker bee

staggering under

a coat of pollen

Hazel

red ants carrying crumbs

hurry among the cobblestones

September deepens

MaryJane Turner

Some tiny fly

on my white haiku journal page

Horst Ludwig

on a walnut-tree leaf

a butterfly sips

a dewdrop

Daniel Py

ants in a column -

no talking,

no horsing around!

--Michael McClintock

the praying mantis

lifting up her forearms -

made it through summer!

Edith Muta

when did the crickets

stop chirping?

first frost

Penelope Davis Greenwell

old mosquito

too tired to escape

my striking hand

--Adriaan Jacobz

sundown . . .

under the apple

a yellowjacket

ito

from her shell

she looks at an insect

a tear rolls down her face

dogbacon

neon slope

the buzz of people

mosquitos

James M. Thompson

leaf fragment -

my bare foot avoids

an army of ants

Gene Williamson

In the spider web

caught between day and night

the still fly

Angelika Kolompar Bygott

cobwebbed hedge -

honey bees rolled into

future meals

kevin ryan

what rush to wipe it?

that tiny insect's sport in

dust at my lampstand

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