Fireflies Poems - Poems about Fireflies

Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, trees, firefly, fireflies, cuckoos, rice fields, rice paddies, bush-clover, Iris, Irises, temple, temples, Japanese culture, light, daylight, lit, boat, boats. Fireflies turn our trees into well-lit lodges. —Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch A noontime firefly, dim by daylight, hides behind a pillar. —Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Firefly watching, the tipsy boatman rocks the...

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When what’s happening in our country and the world gets me down When I don’t know where the sad news will come from next…or when… I look to my family and nature to help lift me up again. Last night as I sat in a rocking chair on the porch of our cabin in the trees and again this...

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Whirlwind Of summer embers Stirs up From the un-mowed grass Swept by the brooms of July 4th fireworks Booming distant in the furled city Up high To the tree tops The fire flies rise To the hunger of bats that swoop as spoons Banging the pan of moon More than enough for all The stars Lightning bugs Moonbeams and bean wings Consciousness everywhere Our heads tilt On their cracked bodies Statues Still standing For a...

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In the dark of night fireflies luminous light dots Bat buffet delight...

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I see words, and they see me It’s true they are sentient, quite But they will never see the light of my world through my loins They keep floating by, ever speaking never ceasing like tinnitus in my transcendent sight Like orphans from somewhere never Their little fingers grope as they look at me squarely Speaking barely, “bring me...

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The rains have ended, The night has begun, Stars are shining in the sky, And fireflies glow among the bushes. The stars hang, fixed, in the heavens, But the fireflies are free— They can kiss the sky. This freedom of the fireflies Does not please the stars. The stars keep dreaming, Restless, of slipping down in form of stardust. The fireflies, with a gentle warmth, Send messages...

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Verse 1 We were barefoot kids in the ‘Bama heat Chasing fireflies through the summer wheat She laughed like a song, wild and free Holding that jar like it held a dream I'd watch her glow in that golden hour And wonder if she knew her power Pre-Chorus Even back then, I just knew Some kind of light was pulling me through Chorus From fireflies to...

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stars are the fireflies of night and we communicate with our light red, blue, and green with some indigo with delight ...

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your hand in mine, tiny lights whisper promises ...

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Luciferin in abdomen of glowworm with air -contact forms warm glow . ...

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Carrying light as backpackers ...

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Fireflies Like stars, fireflies yearn to shine and match their beauty, but kiss the ground awhile. ...

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A graceful g l o w~ a belly-flicking thrill, g...

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Night wraps the woods, flickers fabric of living light. Sparkling sky descends with twinkling stars. ...

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God's little lamps illuminating the night; luminescent lampyrids lighting up my darkness... ...

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