fireflies

April 30th, 2010 | 439 Entries

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439 Entries for “fireflies”

  1. fireflies never know how we feel. we just do everything as we normally do. do they complain? no, they just keep on flashing their lights. they’re content, like we should be.

    ellen
  2. We sat on the porch, and, as we were contemplating our predicament, I realized that the myriad fireflies were the key to our escape from the darkness. I ran inside and grabbed a jar.

    ella
  3. I’ve never caught a firefly but I think that it would be great if I ever had the opportunity. They’re such unique little things, they add their own light and sparkle to the otherwise dark. I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen one before but I hope that someday I will.

    Alex
  4. when I was a kid we played spotlight tag. I would catch fireflies and wipe them down my brother’s back without him knowing it. Their glow smeared on his back made him easy to spot.

    Larry Lowe
  5. That’s a funny song by Owl City. They sound like they haven’t gone through puberty. But that’s okay! I like that song anyway. Did you know that only female fireflies can light up? Yeah, didn’t think so. Well, I hope you have a good night. There aren’t any fireflies out yet. Maybe in July. At least that’s when they come out in Pennsylvania.

    Shannon
  6. Fireflies haven’tbeen showing up lately. they disappear as we get older. and I haven’t been able to see them lately. It’s because no one ever spends as much time outside as they should be, and I feel so depressed that I haven’t been able to see them lately. . .

    Kylie M. ♥
  7. The most beautiful bug. They light up the sky with a passion that most others could not understand. They try to fight the night and they cannot win as they slowly fade into the shadows that fill the darkness with sadness. They try to fight but return to their homes for another rest.

    Hannah Rose
  8. Late at night, sneaking out with my Dad to catch them in the neighbors’ yards. Ice cream. Glowing guts. The night time with peepers in the background. Hybrid plants with firefly genes mixed into them. A glowing flower. Odd.

    Kelsey Danger
  9. twinkle in the grass, lower than the stars. fun for children, entertaining for parents to watch the children. fun for the whole family. summer. cool evenings, light jackets. fireflies.

    gwen
  10. I feel them every time you’re around. And I wish I could hold my own, but I fail miserably. You speak and my stomach goes insane. Flit, flutter, fly, fly, fly. Sorry, I’m such a wreck.

    Heather
  11. like summer time icons of fun for most kids. remember putting them in a jar, in the morning they were dead. catch more the next night, but release this batch, learning that they will be dead if you keep them, even if you make a bed of grass in the jar and punch holes in the lid.

    Abby
  12. The only light for miles, casting their dim hope across the honeysuckle fields of our youth, blinking in and our like the loves of our youth. Dawn brings them back to their homes, and us back to our work.

    Tuck
  13. The fireflies flitted about the night air, one perhaps landing on my arm. I didn’t know how to say anything about the slight glow that was emitted from their backsides. They cast a soft light onto my skin as their wings opened and closed, and I couldn’t help but smile.

    Naomi Spicer
  14. There is no sensation like watching the fireflies on a warm summer evening. Tiny baubles of light in the distance, or the not so distant distance, illuminating the night and surrounding the air with a safe, comfortable feeling. As though the sun will never return. As though that’s okay.

    Elena
  15. Flitter fluttering fireflies, casting light on a hot summer’s night. Dancing and rustling through the breeze, flying beneath and between the trees.

    Ellen
  16. Fireflies light up my night
    They make the dark bright
    Fireflies make life fun
    but not when you’re sitting in the sun

    Fireflies have a song
    cuz they’re out all night long

    Caiti Tramel
  17. Fireflies are creatures upon which induce light into our world. Fireflies light up the world at night, just like you light up mine. It’s an illumination of my life, my appreciation, my adoration to you – fireflies.

    Danielle
  18. Fireflies held sparkling in a tightly closed jam jar … captured in sticky little hands, wings smudgy yet still functioning … flapping and flying and sparking off each other making eyes shine with joy. Smell of campfire

    Willow Goodman
  19. these creatures at amazing and beautiful on a nice night. it is sad that some people have never even seen them. The best part it looking out across a field and seeing them all light up, its a beautiful sight.

    Jessy
  20. flying in the night, stars are everywhere, camp fires ,k friends, a laugh or two, smoking a bowl, fuck those fireflies firing their shit everywhere, what the fuck man, lets bottle em up until they suffocate like all kids do without knowing, but it is a good way to learn about life and death as a young one. but why are the kids out at night anyways? wtf man. parenting is a full time job

    eric rau
  21. There were seventeen men standing on the beach that day, and at least four times as many fireflies.

    “James,” said Paul, staring out at the swarming lights that danced across the horizon. “Isn’t it the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen?”

    James nodded, and sixteen other men agreed with him. These fireflies, the souls of the people who had already died on this island, were in fact amazing.

    Acacia
  22. fireflies flicker in the soft, humid night. this is the scene of dreams, the scene i always wished i’d be in. the place people go to be happy.

    alice
  23. I remember catching them when our family took it’s first trip out to Nebraska. We went to Mount Rushmore in South Dakot, and then to my Aunts. It was my first time seeing them. I love that memory.

    Amanda
  24. beautiful lightening bugs to catch in the summer and place in a jar to share with all your friends and horrify your mother. Why the fascination with these creatures…they’re just bugs and they’re only pretty at night. they def not pretty when you find them all dead in the jar the next morning… Poor things……all because you were a bored kid

    Nimby5956
  25. they are bright and beautiful.. they make me think of childhood.. they fly around with no care in the world brightening up the dark night sky. I love to try ty and catch them and watch the light they make as I cup my hands together. So innocent, and free.

    emma
  26. Beautiful bright emerging into the world only to live a short time but as they make every minute count they become bigger then the short life they have led.

    Susan
  27. Emergence
    I once watched one of my favorite radio shows radio lab about emergence. The specifically mentioned that in africa fireflies will start blinking interdependently but then eventually sync up, to be in unison. pretty cool. Order out of chaos.

    Rauf
  28. lit up the disk-darkened field, bobbing like a sea of phosphorescent jelly fish. i ran through the field, hands cupped, trying to scoop them up las though they were water and cringing in delight as the tiny bodies smacked and stained my hands

    anguisette17
  29. Something once wonderful, but ruined by the ben gibbard poseur singer owl city. Song was a hit for awhile but then most people realized it sucked.

    Tanner
  30. There were a million of them out in the swamp, fireflies like stars around my ears. We were waiting, watching, for the moment when we’d no longer be afraid, or you’d be drunk enough to forget what fear is. I thought I loved you, in the low glow the fireflies gave. Now I know I imagined it on the cold air.

    Ella Emma Em
  31. Cliched phrases, overplayed teeny bob premature pop music droning the same word endlessly. Just sit outside on the grass, get your pants wet and your arms stung, and watch the fireflies swarm in front of your face.

    Jane
  32. I used to go around and collect fireflies in jars at the farm we lived in. I recently went camping and was wondering if I would see any. I was hoping to. They bring out some childhood feeling that is nice.

    Casanddra
  33. fireflies. fireflies have wings. fireflies light up. fireflies are nature’s lamplights. they buzzzzzzzz, and they are silent, and they say everything summer has to say. fireflies are lovely.

    Anna Schweig
  34. when I was 12 we went to nebraska to visit my father’s family, and my aunt showed me how to catch fireflies. We would pinch their butts and the glowing liquid would come off on our fingers.

    erica
  35. I love fireflies. I love the way their light illuminates the night. You can squish them and their light will still be illumated on your hands. And then you can wipe it on shit. I tried to steal 3 of them from cleveland once and bring them back to san francisco but they died on the plane.

    dina vanmeter
  36. Glowing in the night sky. Flitting, flying, illuminiating. Sweet, safe, loving, curious, loving. Bring many to my yard for me to enjoy. Light up the darkness.

    Jennifer
  37. wings flapping quickly the tiny fireflies lit the sky like thousands of tiny stars, giving hope to the once dark cave where I sat contemplating life, death, and if it was all worth living for.

    Savannah
  38. Ten million fire flies. Wouldn’t that be kinda gross? I mean insects are insects. With their little eyes and suction mouths. I like fire flies one at a time. Thank you very much.

    Kristen
  39. i like to make myself believe. That planet earth turns slowly. when i was young we would catch fireflies for fun in jars. I miss those days. I think it is amazing how they glow green. Maybe we could use that for something in the future.

    Steve G
  40. Fireflies. I wish there was some outside right now. I’d be able to see them from where I’m at. The Bungalow. We call it that, but it’s really just a shed that was made into a bedroom. It’s my best friend’s place, and it’s really cool. I would stay the night, but I know I’d freak out because of the dark. Because of the trees. The noises. But somehow, I think if fireflies were in abundance here, I’d figure something out. :D

    Rex!