# 15... My poem based on Haiku + Collins' Japan

I did not get to share what I thought of or what I wrote after reading my choice of Haiku -- A Gold Bug. But this is what I came up with after using Billy Collins' poem Japan as an example.

A gold bug –

I hurl into the darkness
and feel the depth of night.

(Takahama)

Haiku + Japan = Firefly

Firefly

Thinking of a golden bug
the words flutter constantly
in my head.

It makes me feel happy
and bright inside, like a
glow worm forever shining.

I close my eyes and see the speckles
all around. The various dots ones sees after
looking directly into the sun’s rays.

I turn the light on and off in the dark room.
To remember the image at night
I look at the stars twinkling around me.

The disco ball flickering at a midnight rave
evokes the feeling of you
casting temporary light among the moving shadows.

And it is when I look up a the heavens,

and whisper in the wind the
wonderful words of the golden bug.

I then see fireflies flying
launching through the air in the darkness
and disappearing into the depth of night.