Poems on small creatures

描繪小生命的詩

Poems on beetles, insects,


worms, flies, and so on.

 Beetles "甲蟲"

by Monica Shannon

Beetles must use polish,

  They look so new and shiny,

Just like a freshly painted car,

  Except for being tiny.





 Mosquito "蚊子"

by Valerie Worth




There is more

To a Mosquito

Than her sting

Or the way she sings

In the ear:


There are her wings

As clear

As windows.

There are the sleek

Velvets on her back;


She bends six

Slender knees,

And her eye, that

Sees the swatter,

Glitters.




Fireflies "螢火蟲"

by J. Patrick Lewis


An August night--

  The wind not quite

A wind, they sky

  Not just a sky--

And everywhere

  The speckled air

Of summer stars

  Alive in jars.