Firefly Poems

(I AM A FIREFLY)
I am a firefly 
You are my dark sky 
You give me reason to shine
You give me season to shine
My shine is different from star
You are my reason to start

I am a firefly,
You are my dark sky...Read More

Yamaguchi Seishi haiku modern English translations

Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt.
—Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Ceaseless chaos—
ice floes clash
in the Soya straits.
—Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Having crossed the sea,
winter winds can never return.
—Yamaguchi Seishi,...Read More

Ms. Sunshine,

In and out, in and out
hovers of infinity
flickers, a pale moonlight

firefly flight with the gift of sight

out and in, out and in
changing without 
challangeing within

a chameleon entrusted 
to rearrange
you say, you stay
the wild your prey

falling
longing
green to jade to aqua...Read More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpbLHqbisUc


A whiff of fragrance with the burn of haystacks touched my soul
as I walked towards an open field, a banquet of dreamy fireflies  
Enlightened by the Path I come to discover an ephemeral world  
a Paradise lost inside...Read More

Goodnight, firefly, flap into
Oblivion, for a lover's light has vanished.
Oh, Romeo, wherefore this
Devastating doom?!
Bury me too, night sky!
Yield nothing in return.
Every forbidden kiss was never mine.

Let them find us bound together.
Over your limp heart I flap.
Vexation has overtaken us, grieving...Read More

Gilded days, before the sudden rain,
Hot, green fields of sweet sugarcane,
Tree melodies that naught can contain,
A meadow of the moonlit firefly reign!

Oppressive heat in languid, summer rooms,
And outside the windows, breezy blooms;
Myriad azure days of their dreamy perfume,
Make for the...Read More

The cascading stream leaps down the emerald valley
Dancing waters caress rolling pebbles on their facet 
Twilight weaves light and shade lattice on tree canopy
Drizzle of silent night sprinkles stardust on the thicket
Stars of firefly twinkle to the tune of crooning...Read More

A kangaroo in dungarees hops hopefully 
	To win first prize in the Favs contest hot
		On the heels of an enlightening glow worm

Surely life is no competition but the stage lights
	Reverberates all the promising contenders
		Reincarnation oils the wheels of the jury

Dolly...Read More

Firefly gravy and fluffy white mashed potatoes if you please.
I will have that next to cherry pie and greasy soup that heaves.
I like my food to surprise me in the middle of mid taste.
If it starts out sweet and ends...Read More

Into the moonlight, of waft pearl blue.
Flash of a firefly, glistening dew.
Horizon converses, in silhouette say.
The silent explosion, of night into day.
Into the meadow, of graceful grand.
Deep in aromas, that froth from the land.
Sunbeams mesmerise, clouds in array.
Countless the colors,...Read More

Softly the night falls,
Shadowing vacant halls;
My recent morning glory, 
Now is nature's history.

Petals bob in warm air;
Tweets of a love affair!
Racy brook, moon gleam,
A time has come to dream.

Night creatures very gay,
As night owl hoots away;
All humanity in a swoon-
A...Read More

A little bit country under those city lights, 
a little bit city goin’ down that county road;
A wild vagabond spirit, soul filled eyes; 
Restless to the point of burning 
to turn this world completely upside down; 
 I never want...Read More

Saša Milivojev - ICE AGE

 

An endless plate of ice

The camel carries me

Treading heavily

Icy tears from sobbing splutter

It stumbles

Over the tips of the pyramids

Weeping

The soul is wrenched

My firefly is not here

At nine

As it once was

 

 
Saša Milivojev

www.sasamilivojev.com...Read More

Saša Milivojev - THE FIREFLY AND THE WIND

 

Thunder rumbles

The poles melting

Waves crashing

Towns sinking

I prayed to heaven

The wind has extinguished you

I will go barefoot on ice

Freeze myself going after you

My love

 

 
Saša Milivojev

www.sasamilivojev.com...Read More

Saša Milivojev - WHEN THE FIREFLY IS GONE



The tide shies away from the sand

Under the dark clouds

Someone is waiting  

The lyre is calling for it

To fly down and shine

Fiery wires

Weave soft sentences

The water is still now

It’s turned to oil

The...Read More

Saša Milivojev - A NIGHT SHEPHERD

 

A firefly shines

It dawns in the distance

I change my clothes

In the dark silence

It’s freezing cold

A cathedral

I will open its door

I will climb the stairs

I will jump on the clock’s hands

A sheep is rolling over...Read More

In the lull of the waxing moon,  a night endows with poetic  glamor; 

In the wink of an  eye,  flickering by  in the midst of  shrubs' shadow, 

A resplendent sight.  A  scramble...Read More

10/5/19 

Firefly

Twinkling across the night sky
He brings to me
The stars' brightness, a delight to see
The glorious, little firefly 
He journeys so far and wide, 
Confident, flamboyant, and filled with pride, 
Twinkling across the night sky. 

4...Read More

stars of the grass
small little spark
of light in the dark
in a jar of glass 
it has been caught
but it zooms out like a shot
a shooting star in the grass

inspired by image #4
for the "make it 7" contest
sponsored by Joseph May
10/5/19...Read More

Imagine a thousand fireflies blinking at the same time,
not a fly and not a bug but a glowing, flashing beetle;
as a child I caught one in a jar and named him Cecile,
in a marsh among the long dense grass they...Read More

Saša Milivojev - A SLUMBER FIREFLY


Stillness stillness stillness
Stillness stillness stillness
A candle burns softly
Vanishes
The ink from the quill
The moonlight calls
Seeping through the windows
Stillness eternal stillness
Walls uttering
Words
Soothing aches
I put out the candle with a tear
And followed the moonlight
To search for happiness
Through a...Read More

Saša Milivojev - AT THE RIVER’S END



Love

Like an endless river

A firefly awaits

Shining from afar

Behind the darkness

Behind the clouds

Behind the sighs

 

 

Saša Milivojev

www.sasamilivojev.com...Read More

A Shadorma

Summer nights,
staccato crickets,
croaking frogs,
barking dogs;
firefly lanterns reeling ‘round,
an august concert.

Thunder claps,
drum beats echoing
through the clouds,
oh so proud.
They dance with lightening fingers;
concert of the rain.


...Read More

THE MORTAL DILEMMA OF FAIRY TALES AND FIRE FLIES 
 

(Brandon, the world  

depends on the existence of fairy tales and fire flies, 

the simple kindness towards lesser things,	 

the magnanimity, the compassion	 

of not taking life simply because...Read More

full moon in rise
cricket song

porcelain orb 
sitting in sky
firefly dance

...Read More