Best Firefly Poems

one fine day they changed places
fireflies lit daytime shadows
while butterflies splashed the night
a shrewd color scheme

bright hues and exotic moon
flittering and fluttering
pure rapture under the stars
midnight was dreaming

the firefly shadows twinkled
above the enraptured blooms
the fervent day seemed to pause
in search of the moon...

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Christopher Cricket
Lived out in a thicket
With his musical family

They slept by day
Each night they would play
At the Firefly Jamboree

A chorus of frogs
Encamped in the bogs
Would always accompany them

No need for a ticket
just come out and "kick it"
They will happily, welcome you in.


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Fairy lights of insects
        Fascinate the senses
                 Flaring in the nighttime 
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Flickering in green gold 
Floating little light bulb
Flying with silent wings
Flightless females await
Flashing to find a mate 
Fluttering together
Flare of sparks dance composed...

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You flit around the marshes and in places warm and wet.
as a beetle you’re about as bright as any bug can get!

You have a tiny flashlight built into your small tummy,
but for foes, your bio-luminescence is not yummy!

Though when a creature tastes you, they’re sure...

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Floating aimlessly
Lantern tail kisses dark night
Disappear again...

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The moon was peeking through the naked trees
The breeze that blew that day had gone to bed
A lonely nightingale perched overhead
Harassed the silence with his sad reprise

The creaking porch swing's old familiar tune
No fitting lyrics could I ever write
To my sweet love on this warm...

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A sky of fireflies
fills with drizzled meek magic
stars sprinkled in jars
sequin flecked lacy twilight
lending midnight their brief light

3/10/22...

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The season of the firefly
Is such an awesome sight
The fields are filled with romance
And a thousand dancing lights

Their mating dance is fervent
And filled with great detail
Their lovers song is silent
Just the beacon in their tail

Their courtship is but a season
It only happens once a year
Their...

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THE FIREFLY

Dancing in the moonlight,
Twinkling through the trees,
Sparkling in the meadow grass,
Like diamonds on the leaves.

Flitting 'bout the garden,
'Midst the Jasmine and the Rose,
No one knows from whence they come,
But everybody knows,

That Summer brings the fireflies,
With gaily twinkling lights,
To decorate the evening,
Like jewels in the...

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lilly lit by flight
life of a red firefly
happy to be night light....

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Specks of fire  flies by

Flickering amid shadows,

Glimmering fireflies.

Lone vibrant beacon poises

On steeple leaf in darkness.


3/9/2022
 

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At the firefly races,
where the viewing is good:
the magical places
near the edge of the wood
and wide open spaces.

At the firefly races,
adrenaline flowing;
they're fearless, courageous.
Their engines are glowing;
excitement: contagious.

At the firefly races,
their course is uncertain.
For near half an hour,
they're fast and they're flirtin',
displaying their power.

At the...

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I wish to be the gentle breeze
Sweeping tearful eyes
Of the weary midday flower.
Or to be the horrid shadow
Casting fearful darkness
For a passer-by to rest.
A rippling river of white
I wish to be the one
Drenching thirst of arid earth.
Or to be a dancing wave
Of the mighty sea
Playing...

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Lightning in a bottle 
That is my little firefly 
I gotcha right out of 
The summer night sky 

Gently captured now 
In an old glass canning jar 
You twinkle, twinkle, twinkle 
Just like a little star 

Riled up and startled 
With a tap... tap... tap
Awaken...

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