mayflies hatching
brown trout awaiting
chalk stream splash
Categories:
mayflies, insect, may,
Form: Haiku
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 morning
Lifting to one shoulder
A whole surrendered sailboat
Unfurled
While marching down McLaughlin Road
Waving to stunned cars as they slow to pass by
The sparkling lake shrinking behind me
Freed and restored
From a morning hoard of frenzied sailors
Who dared tailor the wind and waves
To the sinking suns of dotted buoys
Randomly scattered for the regatta races.
Categories:
mayflies, destiny, environment, freedom, insect,
Form: Free verse
Mayflies
by Michael R. Burch
These standing stones have stood the test of time
but who are you
and what are you
and why?
As brief as mist, as transient, as pale ...
Inconsequential mayfly!
Perhaps the thought of love inspired hope?
Do midges love? Do stars bend down to see?
Do gods commend the kindnesses of ants
to aphids? Does one eel impress the sea?
Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do the stars
regret the glowworm’s stellar mimicry
the day it dies? Does not the world go on
as if it’s no great matter, not to be?
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose.
And yet somehow you’re everything to me.
Originally published by Clementine Unbound. Keywords/Tags: May, mayfly, mayflies, spring, time, daffodils, absence, missing you, mist, transient, transience, pale, inconsequential, stars, sea, everything, universe, A. E. Housman quote
Categories:
mayflies, absence, daffodils, may, missing
Form: Sonnet
[center][b]
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.
~x~x~x~[/b][/center]
Categories:
mayflies, insect,
Form: Verse
ephemeral cloud
zillion life cycles daily
brahma sleeps awhile
.......
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 of the Mayfly (Ephemeroptera) is very short (ephemeral) , typically one day when it has to find food, mate, lay eggs and die.
Syllable Count via www.howmany syllables.com
Categories:
mayflies, day, metaphor,
Form: Haiku