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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

Copyright © D.W. Rodgers | Year Posted 2015

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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! Login to Reply 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 Login to Reply 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. Login to Reply 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