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Catching fireflies on stage

I want to write something grand I want to catch some fireflies Without applauses or a band Cage words in a jar for eyes Consonants make a light show String them with floating vowels Words imprison djins, you know Don't you dare throw in the towel Every day fireflies search for me Even in November when it's cold They like words want me to see I can't without wine and be bold Are fireflies for a show and tell? Woolfs without a howling pack Damned insects are caught pell mell Glowing words buzz in my sack To feel crows captured by Gogh I want God to say well done Anything but Him saying, So? Chasing fireflies should be fun I coax myself onto the stage The greats did it, why can't I? Without claps, they fill the page They lift a glass for fireflies to lie Vowels in a jar should be grand But, I've lost how to be a child Delighted only by God's band I suffocate fireflies ever wild

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Date: 11/27/2023 2:46:00 AM
You have written something grand and done it in such a poetic way.. great use of vocabulary here..
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