Short Mayfly Poems
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An
echo
of delight-
harmonic
minds
in
flight,
meet in
unison to
write
and
create
ekphrasis
from another's
sight.
a mayfly moment
an ephemeral
goal to preserve their breed to
five minutes of life
2019 September 04
"This week is Awareness Weak," ... by the Poet.
the first time ever
interview with a mayfly
we've time can we talk ...
ancient redwood gleams
softly through the mists of time…
mayfly flitters by
-08 Jun 2014-
Average Lifespan:
Redwood Tree - 600 years
Mayfly - 1 day
fleeting
images
as crystalline
hallucinatory
visions;
lying
as flotsam,
washed by the tide,
transotory mayfly
that hide
within
my mind's eye-
until captured and penned..
then die
A short-lived blossom of Spring like a mayfly that lives for the day,the pathos of beauty so fleeting,a few syllables that remain,where less is more and the image livesits life forever, in memory.
Pomegranates in full bloom
on this splendid afternoon.
Mayfly sways on blade of grass.
Lazy clouds floating past.
Sunlit pond, still as glass.
If this day could only last.
An easy breeze blows softly
through the pitch pine trees.
The mayfly knows
it's time to find the lily pad.
Squirrels in search of nuts
tucked away for such a day as this.
All creation cries with joy-
summer has arrived.
We’re born.
We live.
We die
And sometimes wonder why.
And sometimes
With a bit of luck
We get to get or give
A ****.
Are we so different, you and I
From the miserable mature mayfly?
At least we two, may set our eyes
On this, this morning’s shared sunrise.
In the next life if reincarnated
as a mayfly I am designated
it's good enough for me with nothing but fun
for twenty-four hours (under the sun)
until the race is run bonking here bonking there
I'll be bonking everywhere non-stop until I drop
Short lived
As a moment
Merely a day
The flutter of wings
Under a blue sky,
Time only to copulate
Fertilize the eggs
And then die,
The lifespan
Of a Green Drake Mayfly.
W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly.2019.
25th April 2019.
HAIKU EKPHRASIS
A short-lived blossom of Spring
like a mayfly that lives for the day,
the pathos of beauty so fleeting,
a few syllables that remain,where
less is more and the image lives
its life forever, in memory.
Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro
Our first kiss was a deathless Mayfly.
Ten years onward, we sit
in a Doctor's waiting room
as sniffling strangers.
She smells of baby-puke.
Sometime later,
she tries to sell me a cellphone
in Radio Shack
(still no recognition).
Sadly Radio Shack,
like long forgotten kisses,
is now a dead Mayfly.
Our first kiss
was a deathless Mayfly.
Ten years onward, we sit
in a Doctor's waiting room
as sniffling strangers.
She smells of baby-puke.
Sometime later,
she tries to sell me a cellphone
in Radio Shack
(still no recognition).
Sadly Radio Shack,
like long forgotten kisses,
it is now a dead Mayfly.
Listen to poem:
Amazing to be glorious mayfly
Skimming over wetlands and ponds
People look at my wings and sigh
Iridescent colours I wield like a wand.
'tis sad my life is really fleeting
I do so love these sunny hours
Short, my life, but very pleasing
End is nigh in summer shower.
Pixabay image by: Prawny
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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.
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O! Garnet star, what hydra-like,
Immortality
How humanity doth envy,
Thou vitality
What sayest thou of Man?
(Surely he would say)
O - but lowly Mayfly,
That flutter for a day
What thinkest thou of Time?
(Surely he would think)
A torrent inexhaustible,
I forever drink
Lo, but I know a thing,
Surpassing thou by far:
Eternal life in Christ,
Outlives thou, garnet star!
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
MAYFLY
Just a day is all he is given
No surprise wings so driven!
Dragonfly, trout lie in wait
In turn the Angler casts his bait.
Never even time to eat
His existence is so very fleet,
Pass his genes, all else forsaking,
Millions of years in the making.
Duty done and time to die,
The river slowly drifts on by,
He floats among a countless horde,
Sleep well my friend, your line assured.
The lifetime of a mayfly is a
single day leading to eternity,
while a single day for a man
may be lost and ever forgotten
Within seven days mayfly
colonies die, while for
months and years a man
lives silencing own breath
Within a single week flowers
in a vase bloom to rot, while
throughout decades a man is
stuck in a rot unskilled
The speed of time is a virtue to
flowers and flies, while the speed
of time kills a fading man with
regrets and disparaged sighs
My bells, are shared with you,
At the ringing in of the taut day
And the ringing out of the mayfly
The bells, brazen, lucid, warm,
Silence the chatter of the clouds,
Bring solace to a weary ear
And the peeling bellow of the rim,
The clatter of the clapper, urged on by
Yolk, the busy carillon two octaves tall
Falls quiet the nightfall comes, tied the
Ringers’ rope on wooden stop; cadence,
Hum, now spins the air in hollow cup
Written for Bells contest 3/8/15