Best Damselfly Poems

damselfly
a blue wisp
of a whisper



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

posted on April 21, 2019...

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Such beauty and so full of life,
she's flitting to and fro,
from plant to plant to find best perch
and put herself on show.

Sprawling in the midday...

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Across the moor
To Wicken Fen
Where brume swallows all
Into mire, of the life,
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ALONG

loch-studded moorland

bogs and runnels

and o'er the Highland Pass

antennae alert
I'll twist the wind

            to
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single blade of grass
damselfly is grasshopper 
springs to hawk the beck


Written: March 20, 2022...

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Her swift and wondrous gait   enthralls
upon  the light  of lightest evening--
bedecked  in turquoise- gold  finery
sewn by earth’s intricate handiwork...
a...

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If I had my way
I would come back
as a droning dragonfly
strong and determined
or maybe a damselfly
dainty and graceful

Either way
I’d surf the sky
every hour of the...

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If you look behind his story 
there’s a woman you will find.
Not in the struggle for the glory
but with a duty on her mind.

Now meet...

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leafy, tree lined lanes
    rich,  wild flower verges -
    damselfly sparkles...

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If I should find a Butterfly, 
Neath the Willow tree, 
I’d recall how she’d been an ugly bug, 
But now a wondrous, sight to see....

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Inklings of Love
 Love is a never ending daisy chain
Lovely as damselfly sparkling with dew
Joyful as rainbows in sky after rain.

Cherish that you have a...

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Dragonfly Damsel engaging such wonder 
Discovers a world between water and land
Magical enchantment her filmy wings stand
Refracting worlds beheld from another

Lucent pools echo translucent colors
Iridescent...

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Spring skips along over billowed clouds
peers down at the brown, drying glades,
many trees with branches bare, yet proud
all still in winter masquerade.

"This mustn't be," Spring...

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Naught but a maze shall carry this
bound in cloud
through the tunnels of twigs
shall freedom range to the applause of leaves

Tangency poised on the ballet of...

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I am my fathers son
I am my mothers daughter
Forged in Dragons Flame
Birthed in Neptunes Water

I hear the song of the Warrior
I dance to the warriors...

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