The firefly send sparks,
Starting his quest for a mate-
His first and last light
Author notes
This is a great form of poetry that flows from my thoughts, though the picture I see is greater, I have summed it all up beautifully in such short verse.
A contest entry
- Haiku, write of Insects or Birds by InBetweenThoughts by InBetweenThoughts.
600 points, ended September 29, 2007, 23 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
^_^
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You're damn right about that. The picture your paint in my head is really vivid, clear and breath-takingly beautiful (stop messing with my head. Now!)
Fireflies .. don't really know much about them but they are wondrous creature (can you tell that I cannot spell)
All the best and keep writing,
Never ♥
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Very Berry Nice
I love it, it makes sense and its true. very well thought out and done good. any ways keep it up
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A nice and interesting piece, I did find Lines 2 & 3 a bit telling rather than a simple image though.
Good luck in the contest.
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Interesting bit of information. I think you might want to say 'the firefly sends' instead of 'send'. Beautiful poem. I liked that you said 'last light' instead of 'last night', which is what I was expecting. Nice use of an almost-cliche. Great job.
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Beautiful imagery, poor critter..first and last night?
Glad I'm not a fire fly! Thank you for your Haiku...best wishes, Ken IBT
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lol. Not to break the annomitity, but just to spead knowledge around, when a male firefly "glows," it is pretty much the last thing he ever does. When a firefly is ready to mate, a chemical in its body, Luciferin, reacts in a way that causes the one small flash of light, used to attract a female sexual patner. After a femal is attained and the mating completed, the male firefly dies.. 'Tis true
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/clocks/summer/fireflies.html -
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Cool, thanks for the 411! I didn't know that and you have broadened my knowledge
have a great day, Ken IBT
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