Short Lightning Bug Poems

the screen projection
movie theater dark
— glow of lightning bug

11/21/2018...

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lightning strikes, winds hush..

        scared lightning bugs in the bush..

                twinkling in a rush.....

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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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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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Fly, little lightning bug
Flurry in marsh and field
Flash your flame at twilight
Flirt in the dark of night
Find yourself a new mate
Fascinating glowworm
Flourish in great numbers...

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Charms are thus...
Like the hearth ember or that of lightning bug
Elegance requiring evermore
As the sunrises forth to the mid-day sun
Compares my lady to the untamed
Wilds of a regular woman...

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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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Lightning bug flying
here to there to here to there----
countryside neon
       
Its light display, fabulous
can’t say as much for spelling

 For Brian’s “Tanka Me” contest
© May 24 2010...

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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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When you are writing a poem
or a book or your name a letter
you must use plenty of flourish
which to me means something
must shine out to be seen
and noticed and remembered
by whomever is reading your creation
Mark Twain said that using 
the right word can be compared to
lightning and a lightning bug...

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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 stay....

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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 them as a hello from heaven....

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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 I wanted was to fly...

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"Your light burns brighter than a dying star"
Barked the Aardvark to the lightning bug
Suffocating in the mason jar

"Was it not I" replied the fly encased in glass
"Who gave Edison the idea of the bulb
By the seat of my enlightened ass"

"I thought i was special i must admit
And when my light dies out
I hope you step in shit"

Slipping in shit the Aardvark died on the floor
Because the little light burnt out
And darkness shined forevermore...

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Downwind 
a dream like apparition 
appears
  Glowing like a lightning bug 
He illuminates the night 
He has the power
to change lives 
If you are open to his 
particular version of the world
Then you can much 
by simply seeing him 
This luminescent being 
has been given divine power 
Let the scoffers beware!! 
The light he gives off 
can cut through the blackest of nights
and the vision that he represents 
has the power to change the 
parameters of earthly life...

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