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commencement
chasing a new generation
of fireflies
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Haiku first published at DailyHaiku, 7/22/2011
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for a.c.
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commencement
chasing a new generation
of fireflies
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Haiku first published at DailyHaiku, 7/22/2011
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for a.c.
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Red Dragonfly 
great haiku-thanks for sharing! pamela
Thanks, Pamela. 🙂
Very nice — makes one pursue what the intended meaning is.
Thanks, zum, glad you stopped by.
Love the haiku, and how you get away with such a long word in the first line. 😉
The image is fantastic! I couldn’t quite make out the artist’s name, but I love it!
Alan
If you click on the image, Alan, you can see a much larger version. The artist is Charles Livingston Bull and this is an illustration from a 1902 book called “Beautiful Joe’s Paradise” which I am dying to see…
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/charles+livingston+bull
… not least because this image reminds me so powerfully of Kaneko Tohta’s haiku “ookami ni…” (a wolf/one firefly clinging to it) and of Kuniharu-san’s haiga of this haiku:
http://seehaikuhere.blogspot.com/2009/07/haiga-259.html
I really, really want to know what is going on in this story and why the wolves are covered with fireflies.
Yep, I clicked onto the image, and then clicked again, maybe just my eyesight. 😉
Yep again, got the allusion to Tohta Kaneko, my all time top haiku writer. 😉
Alan
Totally digging the image you put with this. And, of course, still love the haiku. 🙂 So glad to see it found a home!
Yeah, I flipped out when I found this picture… I am on a mission to track down its context.
Melissa,
I found this haiku in my list of ones to come back to.
Deathbed . . .
my old friend’s imitation
of a firefly
vincent tripi
It fits with your fireflies.
Sully
That’s a great one, Sully. I think it’s in Stan Forrester’s firefly anthology — is that where you saw it? If you haven’t seen that book yet, you’d love it.