Firefly Poems

It is dark, no moon, no light
Just darkness, a starless sky
The wind blows, the waves break
A single firefly passes by
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Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
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Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, 'Speak to us of Pleasure.'

And he answered, saying:
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Bird perched, Branch fell
Bird thought, “I did”.
Hen cackled, Sun Rose
Hen thought, “I did”.
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Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font;
The firefly wakens, waken thou with me.
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God, make my words a firefly
God, make my conversation a butterfly
God, make my footsteps a path
God, make me fragrance of flowers
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The firefly's flame
Is something for which science has no name
I can think of nothing eerier
Than flying around with an unidentified glow on a
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The moon stared hiding itself,
The night was sitting
Nude in the balcony
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It is time for me to go, mother; I am going.
When in the paling darkness of the lonely dawn you stretch out
your arms for your baby in the bed, I shall say, "Baby is not
here!"-mother, I am going.
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Before those cruel twins whom at one birth
Incestuous Change bore to her father Time,
Error and Truth, had hunted from the earth
All those bright natures which adorned its prime,
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Outside the sky is light with stars;
There's a hollow roaring from the sea.
And, alas! for the little almond flowers,
The wind is shaking the almond tree.
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A black cat among roses,
Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon,
The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock.
The garden is very still,
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backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk
underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow

woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile
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NOW sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
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O lamb of gleaming richness!
listen to firefly’s happiness
it moves the audience
to reject unbalance
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Through throats where many rivers meet, the curlews cry,
Under the conceiving moon, on the high chalk hill,
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A Song in Chinese Tapestries


"How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said,
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A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face,
Of temper amorous, as the first of May,
With lengths of yellow ringlet, like a girl,
For on my cradle shone the Northern star.
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“Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,
There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing,
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I

The girl in the room beneath
Before going to bed
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We'll take off all our clothes
clad only in faith and shadows
we will slip through the cracks
like a firefly, a crackling spark.
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You are as beautiful as the Daisy flower
You are as wonderful as the Ivy Tower
Your body scents dispersed like the smooth sound of Camelia
Your Sweet smile gives some feelings of euphoria
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(a firefly poem)

Love isn't easy to find, it's ​well-camouflaged.
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Sometimes you have to get your halo dirty.

(a firefly poem)
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(a firefly poem)
Take my advice, I'm not using it
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In the dark night
Everyone is deep asleep,
But the great poet begins to write an immortal poetry,
Suddenly he sees a firefly nearby,
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(a firefly)

Put that imagination away before you hurt someone.
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Luminescent Firefly, so bright,
Like a tiny lamp, gentle and light,
Lightening the dark, mystical night,
Luminous, joyful, radiant white,
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All firefly do not surrender to death
All firefly do not jump into the firey ringlet
The rest
After a certain time
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Yamaguchi Seishi haiku modern English translations

Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
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