Saturday, 6 March 2021

A Poem a Day (402): Jewel bugs

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Jewel bugs
 
We clash like colours bursting
outside their seams, leaking out;
a disturbance of unruly hue,
staggering in our audacity to be.
 
Sparks from fireflies dig us out
from earth’s embers, dripping night,
and we are come to rebuild.
Light hangs heavy, red lanterns
 
turn the green grass bright blue.
Languid are the skinny trees. They
loiter, waiting for us to cleanse,
curious how we roll time backward. 
 
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, March 6, 2021
 
 
Image copyright KitchilPus. From the Project Noah website: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/2099706002
 

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