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#dragonflies
I never thank you for being the sole orange-blossom in my garden. Laughter fills your pockets and spills into the air like bubbles, adhering to all who pass. Only you know how to turn anger into flowing yellow carnations and chocolate swirls. Vibrant amber sun-eyes glint on your face; you elevate me with your common sense and faith. Every night, when I was little, you crocheted a quilt of stories in my head so I could sleep. Your touch turns my tears into dragon-flies fluttering Off my cheeks, reminding me that I am never alone. Upon my shoulders, I wear your strength as a jacket against the cold.
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Apr 11, 2020
Apr 11, 2020 at 5:13 PM UTC
Mom
Harbinger of good tidings Rejoiced, sun-scorched land Influx of dragonflies
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 11:48 AM UTC
...but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life
I remember as a quiet child The summer days upon the grass laid Banks of a timid stream Sitting cross-legged, bending To stroke the muddy waters With a part of forgotten wood And all around the warmth of The summer's glowing sun An intake of breath would Bring the scent of tall trees Bounding to my favorite nest. footsteps followed shallow paths That meandered to and from The stream which gurgled as a child In excited and gay temperament I did then pause in rapture of my sense And touch a life of serene sublime A tender moment to solitude Yet as I sat flat upon the grass A gentle butterfly swaggered In its pride of showy acrobatics White and blissful in balance With my sun-filled dreams Nature showered in a halo of blushes Collected the dusty corn colors of summer And sprinkled then at my feet For a secret wish for me to dare Then... through my reverie I heard some voices cheer Some boys scuttled the biggest log there back into the stream it sped Some part cooled in water Some part basked in sun I recall the echo of buzzing beetles That zoomed across the water And were hidden by the distance On the other side Some dragonflies hovered with curiosity In some infrequent time The red and green of their wings Seems now lost to me They shimmered like chrome Of tireless helicopters This was a busy side to my young years What with barges of driftwood And scurrying air-traffic Yet the call of the water birds Stayed only after the sun had set And leafy foliage lingered in silhouette The birds crossed the sky with To me a mournful cry As a reminder the day had said goodbye Yet little did I realize then That in flowering adulthood I would return to those summer days in sweet lament And cherish that moment of child content.
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May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 at 6:05 PM UTC
Sweet Lament
I remember as a quiet child The summer days upon the grass laid Banks of a timid stream Sitting cross-legged, bending To stroke the muddy waters With a part of forgotten wood And all around the warmth of The summer's glowing sun An intake of breath would Bring the scent of tall trees Bounding to my favorite nest. footsteps followed shallow paths That meandered to and from The stream which gurgled as a child In excited and gay temperament I did then pause in rapture of my sense And touch a life of serene sublime A tender moment to solitude Yet as I sat flat upon the grass A gentle butterfly swaggered In its pride of showy acrobatics White and blissful in balance With my sun-filled dreams Nature showered in a halo of blushes Collected the dusty corn colors of summer And sprinkled then at my feet For a secret wish for me to dare Then... through my reverie I heard some voices cheer Some boys scuttled the biggest log there back into the stream it sped Some part cooled in water Some part basked in sun I recall the echo of buzzing beetles That zoomed across the water And were hidden by the distance On the other side Some dragonflies hovered with curiosity In some infrequent time The red and green of their wings Seems now lost to me They shimmered like chrome Of tireless helicopters This was a busy side to my young years What with barges of driftwood And scurrying air-traffic Yet the call of the water birds Stayed only after the sun had set And leafy foliage lingered in silhouette The birds crossed the sky with To me a mournful cry As a reminder the day had said goodbye Yet little did I realize then That in flowering adulthood I would return to those summer days in sweet lament And cherish that moment of child content.
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pond shimmers in sun dragonflies embrace midair dance forming new life
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Mar 25, 2018
Mar 25, 2018 at 9:32 PM UTC
Dance of Life Haiku
I never win, Racing against dragonflies, But I love it.
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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 at 2:36 AM UTC
Dragonflies know how to have fun
Gazing through the tallest green nettles I realized they do not bite me Cause it was not the day for stings and aching Cause i had the black mountain boots and a heart on my dim dark sport gown My hands reached upwards the Heavens towards   the white yello Crown of Elder's Abundance Where Scented Blossoms Coloured my skin And exposed my life lines After The coolest tangerine Lemonade I sat on the black soil squished young grasses and found the tiniest snail baby My palm was a giant Plato For it's snailish leg On the left one he was without weight portruding forth to his destination Is it possible that his house was 3,5 mm long Isn't it cute that when streched was 7 mm at lenght Visible horns like 1 mm and half of it The upper The downward Twotwo Four What are you looking at My lines or me If he climbs from my left palm on the right one It's ment to be I'll visit the seaside Fibbonacci House Spiralled Inner layers with colours outer still and translucent Is it possible this tiny snail thinks about me It didn't work It remained on my heart's side Then I moved this cutest creature on my right palm Little little snail you're not a match to squeeze From the right to the left I thought to myself he is she i don't know snail's so young for sure it doesn't seek another snail To cherrish and love Yet It Climbed on my left thumb Beautiful in motion As a revolution For better days It is my heart's side My vision became Sharp Clouds Waffed all around on the deepest blue White and puffy Magickal Metallic Dragonfly Emerged out of Nowhere Had landed on a spider web cocoon on the Verge of Enchanted Forest Where grave monument resides Dragonfly was in the air the invisible wings fluttered My sharp vision focused on another three Blueish camerades They don't need los zapatos They are not obsessed as Imelda was And i wasn't thinking about that at all This words are for you: thank you for the music but the dragonflies buterflies I love most. They were near my heart, one caressed among tall grasses one butterfly also not in oslo and Fibbonnaci Friend who gave me this Sharp vision To see the magic revealing all around.
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May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 5:14 PM UTC
Metallic Blueish Dragonflies on the Verge of Enchanted Forest
Gazing through the tallest green nettles I realized they do not bite me Cause it was not the day for stings and aching Cause i had the black mountain boots and a heart on my dim dark sport gown My hands reached upwards the Heavens towards   the white yello Crown of Elder's Abundance Where Scented Blossoms Coloured my skin And exposed my life lines After The coolest tangerine Lemonade I sat on the black soil squished young grasses and found the tiniest snail baby My palm was a giant Plato For it's snailish leg On the left one he was without weight portruding forth to his destination Is it possible that his house was 3,5 mm long Isn't it cute that when streched was 7 mm at lenght Visible horns like 1 mm and half of it The upper The downward Twotwo Four What are you looking at My lines or me If he climbs from my left palm on the right one It's ment to be I'll visit the seaside Fibbonacci House Spiralled Inner layers with colours outer still and translucent Is it possible this tiny snail thinks about me It didn't work It remained on my heart's side Then I moved this cutest creature on my right palm Little little snail you're not a match to squeeze From the right to the left I thought to myself he is she i don't know snail's so young for sure it doesn't seek another snail To cherrish and love Yet It Climbed on my left thumb Beautiful in motion As a revolution For better days It is my heart's side My vision became Sharp Clouds Waffed all around on the deepest blue White and puffy Magickal Metallic Dragonfly Emerged out of Nowhere Had landed on a spider web cocoon on the Verge of Enchanted Forest Where grave monument resides Dragonfly was in the air the invisible wings fluttered My sharp vision focused on another three Blueish camerades They don't need los zapatos They are not obsessed as Imelda was And i wasn't thinking about that at all This words are for you: thank you for the music but the dragonflies buterflies I love most. They were near my heart, one caressed among tall grasses one butterfly also not in oslo and Fibbonnaci Friend who gave me this Sharp vision To see the magic revealing all around.
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May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 3:51 PM UTC
Game Spot ( Haiku ~ Senryu )
5 breaks away from it family to inspect my wet leg teasing a shiny blonde hair lit by an evening Baltic sun, its wings said to vibrate at 2,000 times per second, if I reach to touch this momentarily curious creature it vaults toward the back lit protective river reed sweet grass or water lilies at 100 times the speed of one length of its jeweled body, Two species in short vernal contact and how to compare us: Zygoptera have lived 250 years, possess keen 360 degree vision eat mosquitos, never had a thought, yet who is to say my kind are better in the scheme of things?
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 2:47 AM UTC
An azure damselfly
Walking within the confines of the trees, we find ourselves alone within nature, partitioned off from the rest of civilization, and in this moment we dance among the dragonflies.
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Jul 26, 2014
Jul 26, 2014 at 5:31 PM UTC
Dancing with Nature
When she told me she loved me I didn't believe her. So i killed myself instead. A fairy came to me & whispered enticing secrets in my ear. He outlined a closet upstairs where I live alone inside my head. Tidal waves of white roses grow in & out my of spine. Suffocating the fishes prancing in a field of raving vines. Lunar Lullaby plays hopscotch in a cloud of flies. She licks cherry red ice pops & sings bird hymns to oak trees withering in the wuthering skies. Swarming dragon-lies fly in lakes upon Monet's canvas. There he paints a beauty of Thumbelina whose grave resides in the darkest corner of my empty heart. A red cape looms above & flutters without wings. My cave is growing vaster And so I sail amongst its seas. This Psychosis is no more wearing thin than Rigor Mortis can begin. I'll live sedentarily as a maid serving rotten apples to men chained as apes. A lotus will float on by down this bloodstream & into the night. As a crater on the moon your corpse died suddenly as when fruit bloom.
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 1:42 PM UTC
Frankenstein