Stick insects are so very thin
Yet still insist on shedding skin
And even when they grow much bigger
Will maintain their sylph-like figure.

Don’t mess
with those bombardier beetles
gathered in groups
in a world of woods.
This warning’s for ants,
frogs and people:
THEY’RE HIDING A CANNON
INSIDE THEIR CABOOSE!

This chamber of secrets?
A chemistry lab,
cooking up bombs
in their abdomen.
Steaming-hot acid,
fired out in zaps.
Toxic and boiling,
again and again.

They’ll twist round their torsos
well enough
to aim at whatever
caused them to huff.
But their tail-end skin
must be really tough …
or their rears would be hurting
when squirting that stuff!
Bombadier Beetle

https://www.wired.com/2014/05/absurd-creature-of-the-week-bombardier-beetle/

I have a praying mantis,
I keep it for a pet;
It dances on my hand,
A funny minuet.

But out in our back garden,
I like to watch it catch
Lots of harmful insects,
And guard our vegie patch.

Good Morning

As we are on school holidays the site will be in recess until 12/10.

However, please continue to send in poems that can be scheduled in as needed.

Heres one for today to encourage us all to write.

Regards

Jeanie