A Firefly Jar

fireflies by Luiza Lazar @ deviantART

The Sunday Challenge this week at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads offered a unique idea to ponder - a firefly jar for writers, a way to bottle inspiration for later use, either through the words of others that have struck our fancy or through snippets of unfinished poems. My own version of a firefly jar is more the digital variety…eBooks of classic poetry and saved documents with page after page of my random ramblings scattered in a single folder.  I’ve decided to open my “jar” and share just a few glimpses of what has captured my imagination.

“But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;”
William Butler Yeats from When You Are Old

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”
T. S. Eliot from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

And a few snippets of my own…

I sculpt my serenity from sandalwood and patchouli,
A natural cure that is serum to my soul

gather the scattered notes of discord
searching for common theme songs
that can blend into one world harmony.

He plays the martyr,
blameless for the chaos swirling around him.

I will be linking this up both on the Sunday Challenge page as well as for the Real Toads Open Link Monday.