Prisoner_Number_Six
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Wed May-03-06 08:55 PM
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I've just seen the first lightning bugs. Wanna chase 'em with me? |
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In keeping with my own private tradition, upon my first sighting of the season's first lightning bugs, I shall now post a poem I wrote twenty-some years ago. Hope you enjoy it (again).
LIGHTNING BUGS
Warm springtime dusk-- Just right for barefoot-running through the back-yard grass so cool and tickley; fresh and nice-- The flashes happen suddenly, hidden at the corner of an unsuspecting eye-- Now stop! Stand still; don't breathe or blink, for they may see and fly, unseen, away! Now over there! Up in the trees! As night sneaks up to cool the breeze; a Flash! and Flash! Before you know you're darting here and there across the night-dark grassy lawn, hands snatching at a million zillion flecks of winking yellow light-- You reach, and catch! Your Mason jar is full of blinking midnight magic-lantern fire! So, giggling, off to bed-- You keep your jar safe by your head-- You drowse to sleep, and smiling, dream of whirring through the night on wings of sprinkly, starry, winking, twinkly light.
Steven A. Hessler ©2000, 2006 All Rights Reserved
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Wed May-03-06 08:58 PM
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1. You betcha. I still like chasing fireflies. I'll go with you. |
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Wed May-03-06 09:21 PM
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I remember that from when I was an Ohio kid...We don't have lightning bugs on the West Coast. I'm jealous.
Have fun chasin'! Thanks for the poem -- it's very evocative of a summer night. :hi:
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Prisoner_Number_Six
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Wed May-03-06 09:48 PM
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4. I was raised next door in Indiana |
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Now I'm in Texas. Funny where people end up... :evilgrin:
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Wed May-03-06 09:28 PM
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3. We don't have them in Colorado |
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But I remember chashing them in Ohio. Have fun!!!
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Wed May-03-06 10:00 PM
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Edited on Wed May-03-06 10:01 PM by reyd reid reed
I remember them from when I lived on the east coast, though. I love 'em.
One of my kids' friends went on vacation and brought him a firefly a few years ago. I felt horrible for the poor thing but I kept it alive for two months.
Every night, it sat on top of the cabinet and flashed and flickered and made me think of when I was a kid.
(edited because I noticed the subject line exactly matched the previous one)
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