Best Lightning Bug Poems

The lightning bug shines at night,
they help our love ones to the light.
To find thier way to heaven above,
and guide the path with their light...

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Lightning Bug Haiku
Like a fairy tale
in the dark it's glowing glowing there
then it is nowhere.
© ron wilson aka veebdosa the doylestown poet...

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Upon a glance
I did but see a
a flicker of hope

I happened on 
a party of sorts
a celestial kind of dance

What enthralled me so
was bug of...

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I woke up just long enough
to see a lightning bug
hug itself
on the deck
heck I'd love to
be able to 
do that to myself too...

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lightning strikes, winds hush..

        scared lightning bugs in the bush..

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In the middle of June when the fireflies swoon,
          And the warmth of the sun lingers...

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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...

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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...

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Lightning bug flying
here to there to here to there----
countryside neon
       
Its light display, fabulous
can’t say as much for spelling

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When you are writing a poem
or a book or your name a letter
you must use plenty of flourish
which to me means something
must shine out to...

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Purple twilight darkens the day.
A green tree frog jumps embracing
an ashen bark. His eyes open
to silence, as it stares within
inches of a small flickering,
iridescent lightning...

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at last he knows what
has been kicking his ass all these years
living a slow trauma smelling of empire
guardians of civilization on strike or asleep
concluding that...

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Charms are thus...
Like the hearth ember or that of lightning bug
Elegance requiring evermore
As the sunrises forth to the mid-day sun
Compares my lady to the untamed
Wilds...

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"Your light burns brighter than a dying star"
Barked the Aardvark to the lightning bug
Suffocating in the mason jar

"Was it not I" replied the fly encased...

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Maverick Free verse contest

While moonbeams glow
and cast shadow on
bedroom walls—
Lovers doing their thing
while the cradle mocks 
their every move,
empty for the time being.
I grasp the...

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