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Hexagenia Hexsonnetta

These big mother mayflies spend larval lives in mud eating detrital crud, then molt and take to skies to mate, lay eggs and die hand on to newer blood. Freedom's brief days passed water phase starts anew next cycle to accrue. From time's undying past through eons have they last, each generation true. Delectable to trout, match the hatch or you're out. Inspired by John Gerrach's Sex, Death and Flyfishing

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Dr. Upma A. Sharma

Date: 9/21/2015 2:19:00 AM

Wonderful write Dave n yet another superb win! Big congrats!

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 10/1/2015 9:57:00 PM

Thanks Dr. Sharma

Skat A

Date: 9/19/2015 4:30:00 PM

Dave, congrats on your HM win. SKAT

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 10/3/2015 4:20:00 PM

Thanks SKAT - actually this one was forced but I do like mayflies

Josefina Costales

Date: 9/3/2015 10:25:00 PM

I haven't done sonnets yet, I confess I had to do a quick google - which says, sonnets have 14 lines (which you have), in iambic pentameter (this isn't here, but you may be following another meter, and I would appreciate learning from you). I understand that one can have as many as 7 rhyming lines, and I've found 5 in yours ( ?). Thanks for the "fish sonnet". Hope I can get the nerve to write one.

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 9/3/2015 10:57:00 PM

Thanks Josefina, this was composed as an enrty to Andrea's HexSonnetta contest. Details are here http://www.poetrysoup.com/poetry_contests/member_contest_details.aspx?ContestID=7456 I usually do free verse but sometimes its fun to work to a form