Star Firefly Poems

Lowered lids on stars of eyes
velvet black on moonlight smile
in silence of night slept
day from its work to rest
midnight dark and secret
love jet cloud head...

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Driving down a country road one sultry summer evening, with headlights sweeping through the little clouds of dust ahead, 
Caused by cars that led the...

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I searched for stars 
on a cloudy night...
Absence of stars
provoked my pain...
umpteen firefly
amazed me with 
their tiny twinkles;
Telling me with 
their silent lights,
" I am...

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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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ALLAMA IQBAL TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH



Ehad-e-Tifli (“The Age of Infancy”)
by Allama Iqbal aka Muhammad Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

The earth and the heavens remained...

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(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...

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Oh butterfly, earth's gift of renewed hope
Transformed from nothingness to work of art.
Bright fleeting beauty dancing in the sun
With perfect symmetry of form and style...
A...

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I was once a firefly,
Shining brightly in the night,
Flying freely over fields,
Searching for another light

Until the night you pulled me in,
And kept me in your...

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Is she a star of heaven?
  From her moonlit dwelling fallen,
Behold her!! The indomitable spark,
  Defier of the darkness so stark. 
Tell me...

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we waltzed to the moon
shined a new star
two pieces of a mosaic
moving together slow
the night burns into dawn and
i find you
my firefly of the morning 

the...

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