tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post8426095742222961764..comments2023-12-25T00:38:19.500-08:00Comments on Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive): Poetry Friday: FirefliesSarah Stevensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-53547364679026832412007-07-09T15:04:00.000-07:002007-07-09T15:04:00.000-07:00I have a vague, disconnected memory involving fire...I have a vague, disconnected memory involving fireflies. Actually, I have two, one of which was as a two year old child, looking at them in a jar. But the other ....<BR/><BR/>I was 13, in central Mexico, and had been to a sort of bonfire / party. I can't recall if we were coming or going, but I found that fireflies had been smashed upon the grill of the truck. I picked some out, because they were bright, bright, glowing fiercely, even though they were dead.<BR/><BR/>The lights of the firefly, you see, continue even more brightly when they die. It has nothing to do with life, merely with chemical "momentum," if you will.<BR/><BR/>So with Empire.<BR/><BR/>Which is rather the point.<BR/><BR/>Once the lights go out, it's too late.David T. Macknethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03074123750929335716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-80609053832996098132007-07-08T18:15:00.000-07:002007-07-08T18:15:00.000-07:00If you'd like some additional nature poems, I foun...If you'd like some additional nature poems, I found two about Luna Moths to complement a photo my daughter took:<BR/>Cecily Parks,"Luna Moth"<BR/>http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/poetry/parks_c/moth.htm<BR/>and Mary Oliver, "Luna"<BR/>http://www.flickr.com/photos/drp/37264894/<BR/>You can view the photo and other links on Journeys<BR/>http://dmcordell.blogspot.com/dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292813474160548707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-27490348111591418822007-07-08T14:07:00.000-07:002007-07-08T14:07:00.000-07:00Ooh, nice.Ooh, nice.Little Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17058463472836988047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-62999111363578713642007-07-08T12:39:00.001-07:002007-07-08T12:39:00.001-07:00PS - (And, Alkelda, let us know when you've finis...PS - (And, Alkelda, let us know when you've finished the song.)tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-18375985888147895492007-07-08T12:39:00.000-07:002007-07-08T12:39:00.000-07:00The illustration is a plain old Publisher clip art...The illustration is a plain old Publisher clip art image from my computer, so I'm betting it could safely be made into a t-shirt, since it's probably a "fair use" image.<BR/><BR/>I envy you all your connection with fireflies - I equate them with a lyrical kind of magic not much found in the world. And I love this poem so much, because of this intangible beauty of this country; shallow and deluded and bewildered as it may be. Ferlinghetti talked about poetry as prophetic, and this truly seems to have BEEN a prophetic poem in many ways. At the end of the Roman Empire surely there were still fireflies, too...tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-12839982975137328782007-07-07T09:53:00.000-07:002007-07-07T09:53:00.000-07:00I love the illustration, too, TadMack. Where is it...I love the illustration, too, TadMack. Where is it from? Wouldn't a t-shirt with that image on it be great?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-83450134590471376502007-07-06T23:16:00.000-07:002007-07-06T23:16:00.000-07:00This really needs to be made into a song.This really needs to be made into a song.Saints and Spinnershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04733517166056974501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-47572931771444342932007-07-06T18:00:00.000-07:002007-07-06T18:00:00.000-07:00When my son was a toddler, he used to pull up a ch...When my son was a toddler, he used to pull up a chair to the door, which had a clear window, so that he could watch the fireflies outside at night. It was the sweetest thing in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-5331671892673611392007-07-06T17:49:00.000-07:002007-07-06T17:49:00.000-07:00I grew up in East Tennessee, where there are firef...I grew up in East Tennessee, where there are fireflies by the thousands. We captured clouds of them while waiting for the fireworks to start on the Fourth of July. <BR/> <BR/>Thanks for coming to see me today. Poetry Friday is fantastic!Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225998457253574928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-5071348642143506792007-07-06T17:20:00.000-07:002007-07-06T17:20:00.000-07:00I second the "fantastic selection!" comment and wa...I second the "fantastic selection!" comment and want to come back and re-read this some more. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-48639061191203981372007-07-06T16:23:00.000-07:002007-07-06T16:23:00.000-07:00One of my most vivid memories - still clear in my ...One of my most vivid memories - still clear in my mind after more than 35 years - is of a scene my (then future) husband and I observed during a summer night in Maine: a sky full of stars above a field full of fireflies, points of light reflected and magnified.dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292813474160548707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-46048296058533942942007-07-06T12:38:00.000-07:002007-07-06T12:38:00.000-07:00Oooo... what a beautiful poem. One of my favorite ...Oooo... what a beautiful poem. One of my favorite discoveries this summer was that there are just as many fireflies in my backyard in Virginia as their were on the backroads of an Iowa summer...Jenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024880986964198385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-28828131130568643972007-07-06T11:38:00.000-07:002007-07-06T11:38:00.000-07:00Fantastic selection! My biggest Literary Celebrity...Fantastic selection! My biggest Literary Celebrity Encounter was with Lawrence Ferlinghetti--who Rob and I actually got to have <I>dinner</I> with in about 1999 or so. Rob was finishing up his MFA and working as a Master Printer for an artist, Stephanie Peek. She put together an artist's book with her artwork inspired by passages from Ferlinghetti's <I>Endless Life</I>. At any rate, there was a dinner at her house for those involved in the project, and he was there. And he had some interesting stories to tell, that was for sure! I was definitely starstruck, even though at that point I hadn't yet decided I was going to be a writer.Sarah Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.com