Monday, July 4, 2011

Fireflies alight!

I thought you might like to hear about the field of fireflies to which I was subjected over the weekend. If this moment were an indication of the things awaiting me in small town Ontario, I am one HAPPY girl, already!

Enjoy, loves.

Context: leaving a wine and cheese gathering on a balmy summer evening in Long Sault, Ontario. The air was heavy with lushness and promise; a wealth only July can afford. The neighbouring field was alight with fireflies...we couldn't resist a trespassing wander....

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JM


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Fireflies, alight!

Field of fireflies, alight!
They speak of promises unknown
To hearts except my own,
They know not their own language.

They speak of futures bright with cadence
Of nights whose simple radiance
Provide for the blue of the next day's skies.

Whose flights bumble and leap like laden hammocks,
Beholders freed of all mind's panic,
Rendering summer's burdens fair and light.

Dreams cast forward with true purpose,
Life's desires, they now surface,
Amid the fireflies alight.