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Lightning Bug Poems - Poems about Lightning Bug


Premium Member Lightning Bug Messengers
I have not seen a lightning bug since I was a child maybe they do not live in Kansas? I grew up in Iowa July nights there were full of glittering flashing lightning bugs I wish I could see one again, I lament the next night, I see two of them, in Kansas! I am astounded. Thanks Mom, I say. Figuring she sent...

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Categories: lightning bug, child, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'd Like a Little Summer
I'd like a little summer Oh, but not too much, A little kiss of sunshine No more than a touch With cool rain to follow Night breezes that blow, With thunder in the distance And lightning bugs that glow Yes, I'd like a little summer A little warmth in my day, Maybe I'll learn to love her And welcome her to...

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Categories: lightning bug, appreciation, august, july, june,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gotcha
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 canning jar You twinkle, twinkle, twinkle Just like a little star Riled up and startled With a tap... tap... tap Awaken and glow again No more time to nap Lightning bug...

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Categories: lightning bug, children, insect, nature, night,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Hummingbird Flies As Lightning Bug Shines
early aurora a special hummingbird flies by lightning bug ~ next break of the day hummingbird lights eat nectar as lightning bug shines 7/4/20 WRITTEN WORDS BY James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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Categories: lightning bug, adventure, analogy, environment, insect,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Firefly Tango
Firefly tango, lighting up the meadow Whizzes, whirls, flits, and furls, The little varmints buzz around, Unaware we are watching their every move. We older folks are no longer chasing them or popping them in Mason Jars To be our own little flashlights until their lights Stop glowing, and they lie in the grass we put In the bottom of...

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Categories: lightning bug, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Lightning Bug Hug
I woke up just long enough to see a lightning bug hug itself on the deck heck I'd love to be able to do that to myself too...

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Categories: lightning bug, animal,
Form: Free verse
The Lightning Bug
The lightning bug shines at night, they help our love ones to the light. To find thier way to heaven above, and guide the path with their light of love. A soft warm glow all through the night, it brings our hearts such delight. Because they bring our loved ones home, so they will never be alone....

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Categories: lightning bug, encouraging, inspirational, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lightning Bug Haiku
Lightning Bug Haiku Like a fairy tale in the dark it's glowing glowing there then it is nowhere. © ron wilson aka veebdosa the doylestown poet...

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Categories: lightning bug, dark, dream, fantasy, summer,
Form: Haiku
Lightning Bug
Upon a glance I did but see a a flicker of hope I happened on a party of sorts a celestial kind of dance What enthralled me so was bug of light and awe an organic spark it played around abound for nowhere not a friend or foe then out the sky all I saw was a ball of light begging me to play asking me to stay and all...

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Categories: lightning bug, art, fantasy, imagination, natureme,
Form: Rhyme
Lightning Bug
lightning strikes, winds hush.. scared lightning bugs in the bush.. twinkling in a rush.....

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Categories: lightning bug, animals, nature, places,
Form: Haiku

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