Short Mayfly Poems

ephemeral beauty
of a  mayfly goodbye-
spring's end is nigh...

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Born into the world
The mayfly lives for a day
Eternity lost...

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forsythia fades 
redwood stands a thousand years
     Mayfly lives her day....

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her morning song
awakens me
sliced oranges


Published Mayfly, cover feature...

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Sun begins to wake
Mayfly on a summer day
final kiss goodbye...

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live and be till death
gain thee a world worthy lest
a mayfly reaps ye...

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For
three
long years
a lonely
mayfly incubates-
but has just six hours to procreate....

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a morning mayfly
sits at my screen door
looking in



AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on July 9, 2018...

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       so how was your life
  yeah i was expecting more 
       the day went so fast

By 
David Kavanagh...

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An
echo
of delight-
harmonic
minds
in
flight,
meet in
unison to
write
and
create
ekphrasis
from another's 
sight....

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a mayfly moment

an ephemeral
goal to preserve their breed to
five minutes of life

2019 September 04...

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"This week is Awareness Weak," ... by the Poet.

the first time ever
interview with a mayfly
we've time can we talk ......

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ancient redwood gleams
softly through the mists of time…
mayfly flitters by

-08 Jun 2014-

Average Lifespan:
Redwood Tree - 600 years
Mayfly - 1 day...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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.
~x~x~x~[/b][/center]...

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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!...

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