Best Mayflies Poems

Mayflies
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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ephemeral   cloud  
zillion  life  cycles  daily  
brahma sleeps  awhile 

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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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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.
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mayflies hatching
brown trout awaiting
chalk stream splash...

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Through 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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Advice 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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Epigrams 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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