Fireflys’ Return . . . A Lovely ‘Cold Light’ In Our Twilight
with Hallelujah-held hands,”
as twilight houses
scattered blinking brights
of fireflies
to all our delight…
Sending out love signals
these males
in winking flight.
Let their ‘flashes’
coded
attract a female
at a time
appointed
‘right’
for generations
to endlessly squeal
after their tragic disappearance
produced: a visual blight.
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Hope returns too
with our butterflies
of-the-day,
though,
not elusive
as ‘hope’ does
sometimes
portray.
Alighting to skies
casting hearts and sights
upright
“based on a hope
of the everlasting life
that God,
who cannot lie,
promised long ago;”
Titus 1:2.
Hold on…
Everything
will be alright!
Because
“there are new heavens and a new earth
that we are awaiting
according to his promise,
and in these righteousness is to dwell.”
2 Pet. 3:13
Poem…[ Curtains of young wood battle back ]
WAS IT DESIGNED?
The Lantern of the Photuris Firefly
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102014048?q=fireflies&p=sen
‘Morse Code’ With Lights
“Their little airborne lamps, winking on before the stars, endowed my ordinary suburban neighborhood with a wonderful kind of magic,” wrote ecologist Susan Tweit in an article about fireflies. These insects of the beetle family use a light-based vocabulary that “ranges from a simple warning glow to a complicated call-and-response flashing between potential mates,” says Tweit. The color of their light ranges from green to yellow to orange. Because females rarely fly, most of the flashing we see is that of males.—See the box “The Firefly’s Cold Light.”
Each of the 1,900 species of fireflies, also called lightning bugs, has a unique pattern of flashes. It might consist of three flashes, one second or so apart, or of a series of pulses of different lengths and intervals. When searching for a mate, a male flies about flashing his courting code. “A female cues in on the timing of the flashes,” says Audubon magazine, and “responds with a ‘Here I am’ flash at the interval appropriate to her species.” The male recognizes her silent invitation and flies to her.
ITH & SB 