Best Mayflies Poems
MayfliesMayflies
by Michael R. Burch
These standing stones have stood the test of time
but who are you
and what are you
...
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Categories:
mayflies, absence, daffodils, may, missing
Form:
Sonnet
Mayfliesephemeral cloud
zillion life cycles daily
brahma sleeps awhile
.......
Notes:
In Hindu Cosmology Brahma goes to sleep for a period of 4.32
billion years, which is a period of time equal one day (of Brahma)
The Life...
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Categories:
mayflies, day, metaphor,
Form:
Haiku
Mayflies ::Rannaicheacht Mhor Gairit[center][b]
After birth
has shortest lifetime on Earth.
Its called as 'one-day insect'
No regret, one day thenceforth.
Mayflies swarm
And within this shortest term
of life, mayflies form the groups,
and oops! dance too, that's the norm.
The mayfly
as nymph spends lifetime safely.
only purpose is to breed;
That's the creed, follow namely.
~x~x~x~[/b][/center]...
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Categories:
mayflies, insect,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
mayflies, insect, may,
Form:
Haiku
Torch Lake Ii - of Wind and CreaturesThrough our patio window
Pinned
With hundreds of Mayfly fins
Ruffling to the sunrise
I watch an ant
On our Torch Lake deck
Carry a detached translucent wing
Hoisted atop its back
Cleaning the lake’s frenzied hatch
One by one
From a moonlit dandelion
Blown to seed
Across the docks to shore
The night before
It would be
Like me
This...
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Categories:
mayflies, destiny, environment, freedom, insect,
Form:
Free verse
Advice to Young PoetsAdvice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under the bridge
for me to believe
there’s just one acceptable path.
In poetry everything’s permitted.
Byron
was not a shy one,
as peacocks run.
—Michael R. Burch
When I visited Lord...
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Categories:
mayflies, light, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Epigrams VEpigrams V
Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars
applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry?
—Michael R. Burch
Teach me to love:
to fly beyond sterile Mars
to percolating Venus.
—Michael R. Burch
Byron
was not a shy one,
as peacocks run.
—Michael R. Burch
When I visited Lord Byron's residence at Newstead Abbey, there were peacocks...
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Categories:
mayflies, irony, jealousy, judgement, life,
Form:
Epigram