Poem By New York state poet, Nadine McLaughlin

TWILIGHT CELEBRATION

There’s a time
in early evening
when the dark
has finally come

And the
flashing
lights of fireflies
sparkle like small chips
of suns.

Blinking out a
Morse-code message
to all fairies:

“Time has come:

Time to dance
in celebration
that the night-time
has begun.

“Bring your bullfrogs
and your peepers;
let them join
the revelry

With their songs
of raucous calling
from the ponds
and nearby trees.”

(How I wish
that I were tiny,
so they’d want
to dance

with me.)

© Nadine McLaughlin, 2012

Discover more from Nadine McLaughlin.  Her books of startling poetry graphics and photography.
My personal favorite is Life TIMES ….and quiet epiphanies