Salute to the Georgia Lightening Bug (poem) by Susan K. de Vegter on AuthorsDen

Reviewed on January 7, 2008

When I was a kid there were thousands of them in the summertime. We ouel catch them and fill up Mason Jars full. The never seemed so bright after the were captured though.

Walt

Reviewed by Art Hernandez

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

Nice work, Susan...I bet they are a delight upon the soul...

nice....

Reviewed by Michael Guy

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

nice catchy verse! I miss them too (not necesarily the GA. species) but when I was a kid on Long Island, the summer night skies were lit up with their love blinkings. Still some in Vermont in summer. But, you see this is the price of progress! They can't do their thing when the pavement takes over! Nice poem

Reviewed by John Leko

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

...magical words...of nature's lanterns...pen struck by lightning and remembered with deep southern respect.
in youthful wonder...
John

Reviewed by Felix Perry

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

Wonderful and just the right dose of summer magic and youthful charm in this one to make me feel like laying on my back in a field on a warm balmy evening instead of the icy cold of a Canadian winter. lol Thanks for the temporary reprieve.
hugs
Fee

Reviewed by Barbara Smith

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

Susan, this is full of beautiful images, opening a pandora's box of imaginations. I like the warm nostalgic feeling I got as I read this. I use to chase after lightening bugs for hours and put them in a jar and watch their little glows of lights twinkle before my eyes...wow, the beauty of those glows and my childlike imaginations. This is a great writing.

Reviewed by Kate Burnside

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

I love it when you talk of Georgia, Susan. It seems Disneyland for certain sure to my iggo Brit-eye. I have visions of you as Grace Kelly ALWAYS when you write like this. I dodged a tiny little fruit bat mid-afternoon at the harbour's edge recently, but it didn't quite light me up in THIS way....!! :))

Reviewed by LadyJtalks LadyJzTalkZone (Reader)

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

Yes, the longing of spring and magic in the air. Great little write. Lady J

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

Nostalgic offering!!

Thanks for sharing..surely much prettier than spiders those "Georgia Lightening Bug!!

Lov

Reviewed by Paul Williams

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

I think the closet thing we've got here in the UK are radioactive pigeons...but you sure evoke some wonderful imagery in this superb write Susan. I think we all need reasons for magic in this seemingly war ridden world.

blessings
Paul;-)

Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

I miss lightning bugs in general, doesn't matter what state they're from. Don't see as many as we used to, growing up...very sad. Used to always say when seeing one, "I wonder, I wonder, why lightning bugs don't thunder." LOL Well penned, Susan.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

I sometimes see lightning bugs in the summer, but not Georgia bugs. I see Texas lightning bugs. I don't see them as much as I used to; and that is a very sad thing. Excellent write, Susan; I like. Very much! BRAVA!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :)

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

A little homesickness brought out this exquisiste little poem of . . . home . . . They are magnicifent, aren't they . . . The strange little bugs . . .

Reviewed by Ted Bossis

Reviewed on January 6, 2008

Always clear on what is magic & pen many lit-up salutes(*)evol_Ted

Reviewed by Pierre Ortega

Reviewed on January 5, 2008

"Children need reasons for magic in this world of war and terror"
They need all the special things in the world, and also all the special things we can give them. Great write.

Love, Pierre.

Reviewed by George Carroll

Reviewed on January 5, 2008

Don't see many anymore in the Summer nights here on the Island. But they bring back pleasant, peaceful memories of when I was a kid.

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan

Reviewed on January 5, 2008

i miss them as well-beautiful memories from my time back east as well as in the south

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)

Reviewed on January 5, 2008

Yes, we call them lightening bugs in Arkansas
I don't see many anymore.
Just a few this year. Use to see them
by the hundreds. Must be the globel warming...
Thanks for the memory. Love to the Arkansas
lightening bug.
Stay safe...
Ron