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Mayflies Poems - Poems about Mayflies


Advice to Young Poets
Advice to Young Poets by Nicanor Parra Sandoval loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Youngsters, write however you will in your preferred style. Too much blood flowed under the bridge for me to believe there’s just one acceptable path. In poetry everything’s permitted. Byron was not a shy one, as peacocks run. —Michael R. Burch When I visited Lord Byron's residence at Newstead Abbey, there were peacocks running around...

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Categories: mayflies, light, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Epigrams V
Epigrams V Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry? —Michael R. Burch Teach me to love: to fly beyond sterile Mars to percolating Venus. —Michael R. Burch Byron was not a shy one, as peacocks run. —Michael R. Burch When I visited Lord Byron's residence at Newstead Abbey, there were peacocks running around the grounds, which I thought appropriate. Less Heroic...

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Categories: mayflies, irony, jealousy, judgement, life,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member May Day
mayflies hatching brown trout awaiting chalk stream splash...

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Categories: mayflies, insect, may,
Form: Haiku
Torch Lake Ii - of Wind and Creatures
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...

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Categories: mayflies, destiny, environment, freedom, insect,
Form: Free verse
Mayflies
Mayflies by Michael R. Burch These standing stones have stood the test of time but who are you and what are you ...

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Categories: mayflies, absence, daffodils, may, missing
Form: Sonnet



Mayflies ::Rannaicheacht Mhor Gairit
[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]...

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Categories: mayflies, insect,
Form: Verse
Mayflies
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...

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Categories: mayflies, day, metaphor,
Form: Haiku

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