by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
12th grade, beautiful, character, feelings, how i feel, imagery, imagination,
Sketch the sunset leaving today behind,
sinking in the footsteps of yesterday.
And feel the ripple of all life combined,
empty your thoughts; take all but love away.
Emblazon upon your mind a blue sky
gilded by the golden hue of sunrise.
And color a dragonfly zipping by,
watching its beauty materialize.
Blend the yellow of a buttercup's glow
with flickering flashes of firefly lights.
And walk the Earth, yet let no footprint show,
respecting life by honoring its rights.
Mix well until presumptions fall apart
and thus reveal the color of my heart.
by Jannie Breedt |
Categories:
break up, divorce,
Velcro ripped and soda fizz
Velvet crushed Moroccan night
Nocturnal buterflies those flickering fireflies
Our winking spies like circling satelites
Coming together , we fissures of light
Delicious refrain we split like pomegranite
Love spinning round the sun and the planets
Mortally chiselled on tombstone of granite
Hark ! Who goes there this Luciferous night
Its only I with my faltering lantern
Dragging behind attached little light
Fallen firefly - slow creeping glow worm
Mid air flight hangs the hateful things we said
Farewell this, heres lookin' at you kid
by Tim Smith |
Categories:
love, moon,
Slide on over to my side of the moon
where breathless breaths care to undress
stardust buried in lonely nights a calling
the steady glow of my hungry soul to guide
Shine amid these lunar pools of wonder
bathe along with the firefly in pure delight
slow dance freely to the pull of my heart
where romantic nights dare to start
Slide on over to my side of the moon
come close and keep me warm tonight
take a stroll under a little slice of heaven
begging you to emerge and hold me tight
by Tom Arnone |
Categories:
absence, desire, first love, growing up, heartbroken, jealousy, sad love,
Stocking soda....
Rising from the cellar
With an unfinished coda.
Poor, possessed fella.
Rising from the cellar.
Watching for her,
Poor, possessed fella.
The world a spinning blur.
Watching for her,
Elvis knees, gut fails.
The world a spinning blur.
Down the block she sails.
Elvis knees, gut fails,
Forever chasing light.
Down the block she sails.
A firefly in flight
Forever chasing light,
Until a darkness done.
A firefly in flight.
A madness on the run.
Until a darkness done,
With an unfinished coda.
A madness on the run,
Stocking soda....
by Tahera Mannan |
Categories:
life, love,
The silent light of love
Forms a halo above
And I a tiny firefly
With all my loving heart sigh
As it opens its arms wide
To accept me as a bride
04/12/12
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by Tim Smith |
Categories:
lost, lost love,
Firefly flights fight off nightly resistance
lighting up another gloom disjointed day
booms and busts shoot out into the wind
honest tears turn over and just wait inside
Fading off with scents of bitter almond
strange as that may seem to be fading
magnolias setting off dire bursts of color
blinding the times grasping back at me
Truth lies in the eyes of rightful beholder
knowing yes I'm in love alone forever true
but broken the heart held in faint quarters
heard calling softly to be pulled by the moon
by Andromeda Elektra |
Categories:
happiness, love, nature, peace,
her eyes caught its light
firefly- in the curtain, trapped
the wind freed them both
by James Study |
Categories:
love, memory, nature, seasons,
Summer eve affair
Firefly wonder with rhythm light
Sweet melon breath share
by Robert Andrew Lyle |
Categories:
anger, break up, emotions, faith, hope,
In my deepest darkest hour
I could see a tiny light
So faintly it was flickering
Like a firefly in the night
Yet it stirred the hope inside me
As I reached out for the straw
That was my redemption
In that little light I saw
Even though it was a glimmer
It gave me the strength to see
That all the pain I’d suffered
Was there to build a better me
I let go of all the anger
She had left there in my heart
Filled my soul up with compassion
For my lifes new found start
Forgiveness brought me freedom
And helped me to love again
Hurt was my pasts reminder
While my faith it kept me sane
by Constance La France |
Categories:
nature,
Nocturnal glowing,
from firefly enchanters;
like a magic dream ...
I love watching their light dance,
among my garden flowers !
_____________________
March 12, 2022
Poetry/Tanka/Firefly Dance
Copyright Protected, 03-1439-301-12
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Firefly Tanka
sponsor, JCB Brul, Judged 03/16/2022
First Place
by Avantika Poddar |
Categories:
cute love, girlfriend,
for Sue, forevermore
(Tribute to Emily Dickinson and Susan Gilbert: an attempt)
You remind me that I’ve got blessings to count,
Albeit disguised as despair beneath daisies --
You remind me that there’s no grace in saving face,
for the truth comes out eventually --
You remind me of an old familiar body ache,
One that lingers intermittently; causeless --
You remind me of mystery in a murderous ploy,
but the truth bends easily --
You remind me of everything and nothing at all,
A violent outburst that calms my soul --
A sole firefly in my darkest of nights;
Alas, I can’t put out the fires you’ve set in my garden of lies --
by Ian Horn |
Categories:
love
Orange bulb lit firefly,
Silhouetted scaffolds delude my reticent pace
Speckling lights flutter to my grazing eye,
Across a barren waste.
Lonesome night breeze crispends forward gaze,
Tomorrow’s evening builds on and on to a swell.
Hopeless hope listens less to reason, but only mad lovers craze.
Only by tomorrow’s touch will such emotions be quelled.
Longing day falls onward, draining every ounce energy welled
‘til yet once more does my sight jump
to dim lit sky, lined by five lights, gas filled.
And cackling crow stands perched on former electrified stump.
What sorrow song do you sing?
Such sorrow to tomorrow, keep beneath your wing.
by Markkel Malloy |
Categories:
love, romantic,
Like chasing a firefly in the moonlight
so beautiful, so elusive
the feelings I have for you tonight
so strong, so intrusive
your aura, an invisible bright white light
blindingly obtrusive
I cannot bring myself to plight
too bashful and reclusive
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade, cute love, feelings, how i feel, imagery, relationship,
You are the tea leaves I am the teapot
I the tiny snowflake and you the snow.
You the key, I the gate to Camelot
a Lancelot and Guinevere combo.
I am a fantasy you are a dream
you a blazing sun I a molten match.
I’m a firefly and you are a sunbeam
to your itch, I'm a satisfying scratch.
I’m the universe and you’re the big bang
to my shooting star you're a starlit night.
You are Notre-Dame, I the bells it rang
you're a full coarse meal, I’m the appetite.
You are a melody; I am a song
not quite the same, that's why we get along.
(Sonnet)
02/25/2020
by Greeshma Jagan |
Categories:
dream, growing up, love,
To my eternal love,
You have risen from the grave
Several times,just for me.
You are still alive
The most passionate love for you
Have lived in me
And still continues.
The occult power kept you high
When I myself was about to die
You made me live
Yes,I live for you,
For you,whom I have placed
Above the stars,beyond this universe
You the firefly,I became
A high flying butterfly .
When you die in me I revive you
Just you keep me moving every second.
The pain,the suffering and the passion
Is just for you
Because I do believe I 'll reach
You one day,of sure
My dream will be my reality
I 'll conquer the land beyond stars.
by Mahtab Bangalee |
Categories:
love,
on the evening sky
wedding moon enjoying flute
where we are lyric
ring of heart rhythm
brings a feeling of springtime,
handcuffs the bird's life
rising the love shore
under the mild kissing feet
where pebbles sing song
on the pink white grass
the whole night tells fairytale
water-fall greets breath
firefly on the grapes
lips embrace the vestal wine
until the next sun
-February 19,2020 Chattogram
by Mohd Marwan |
Categories:
beautiful, beauty, for her, happiness, love, miss you, remember,
For a long time,I
Couldn't remember thy.
It means isn't that I,
Have forgotten thy.
What I say about her smile?
It is like full-moon in the night.
When I try to forget my Firefly,
My heart beams with its light.
Don't be pride on your beauty.
It is given by only Almighty.
Doing your praise isn't my duty.
It is entirely fit for Almighty.
You are choice of my life
Without along you I can't alive
by Juliet Ligon |
Categories:
death, devotion, for him, heartbreak, loss, lost love, sad love,
Goodnight, firefly, flap into
Oblivion, for a lover's light has vanished.
Oh, Romeo, wherefore this
Devastating doom?!
Bury me too, night sky!
Yield nothing in return.
Every forbidden kiss was never mine.
Let them find us bound together.
Over your limp heart I flap.
Vexation has overtaken us, grieving into eternity.
Each heartbeat falls heavy as I discreetly die over you.
1/6/2020
by Ts Poetry |
Categories:
love,
Ms. Sunshine,
In and out, in and out
hovers of infinity
flickers, a pale moonlight
firefly flight with the gift of sight
out and in, out and in
changing without
challangeing within
a chameleon entrusted
to rearrange
you say, you stay
the wild your prey
falling
longing
green to jade to aqua marine
quality not rarely see
dancing through the naked fields
mouthing whispers, words wet
Freudian slips
moments held, never forgets
the stamen of steam
dripping, we're wet
as clouds kiss us back
I'm hers
as midnight settles us down
new day slowly sips
Cristal
wishes imbibed
caressing me with
her wonderment
by Subimal Sinha-Roy |
Categories:
analogy, feelings, light, love,
After the sinking crimson sun
flushed fire on my hued horizon
the satin night drizzled silver dust,
I floated on the cascading crescendo
of your captivating cadence.
Turning into a flittering firefly
I made way on the moonbeam trail
to the firmament of your heart,
kindling the sparkle of yearning,
glowed together till the end of time.
February 20, 2021
Contest : All Yours (Feb 21)
Sponsor : Brian Strand
by Dr.Hemant Vinze |
Categories:
art, happiness, life, love, music,
The moonlit night
Bathes the earth with light
The twinkling stars
Sprinkle heavenly flowers.
The still, silvery water
Of the silent mere
With a garden of flowers
And myrtle bowers.
The breeze whistles,
The firefly glitters
Enticing the youth,
To revel in Nature’s Truth.
Aimless, theme-less whisper,
Engrossed in youth’s rapture,
With insatiable hug and kiss
O! O!! O!!! The Heavenly bliss!
by Evelyn Judy Buehler |
Categories:
beauty, joy, june, nature, night, sleep, uplifting,
Softly the night falls,
Shadowing vacant halls;
My recent morning glory,
Now is nature's history.
Petals bob in warm air;
Tweets of a love affair!
Racy brook, moon gleam,
A time has come to dream.
Night creatures very gay,
As night owl hoots away;
All humanity in a swoon-
A firefly night of June!
Toad hops on water lily,
Stars shine on tranquilly;
All the world speechless,
As if it died of happiness!
by Keturah Thorpe |
Categories:
lost lovelove,
Firefly Glow and Moonlight shine
I release my love on this sacred line
Invisible with an indigo glow
This web of love and life we constantly sew
Carries this message above
To you my love
And we meet in the moonlight
In my dreams tonight
by Anais Vionet |
Categories:
angst, deep, humor, love, teen,
(a firefly poem)
Love isn’t easy to find, it’s ?well-camouflaged.
by Justin Debrosse |
Categories:
lost love, love, nature,
Burn to the wick
Us cooperating in sync
Nothing more beautiful
Till you blow the candle out