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Insect-like

Insect-like, I spend my summer months

flying lazy circles in the heat.

Instinct carries my heavy presence

from porch lamp to porch lamp,

lapping up the artificial day that I'm missing now.

​

You are electric, bright, purple light.

Caged and swaying, you fill in the dark.

You are a neon danger. CAUTION in all caps.

Defined by your rarity, you incinerate

anyone who can only afford singed wings.

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We meet in the damp midnight of July.

You're as real as the Moon to me.

I will not regret my need to fly

in search of some hole to fill.

The zap of your love will be enough to feel.

​

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Posted Jul 19, 2021, 1:13 PM UTC

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pauldevlin_•

This is beautiful.

The final stanza, all about the love that is felt, is truly beautiful. Summer is the most intoxicating season to me, with everything growing and full of potential, and this sums it up really well. Such a good job!

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igglepiggle114•

oooo! i love the setting evoked through this poem you can feel the summer haze. caution in all caps is such a fun descriptor of the danger and risk of this person. alongside the final line and hard syllables in zap!

really good poem :)

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