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Haiku: Night Highway Scene

by Bruce W Niedt


red lit cigarette
tossed from speeding car window –
asphalt fireflies.


[First published in Samsara, August 2000.]

10/02/2001

Posted on 10/02/2001
Copyright © 2025 Bruce W Niedt

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 10/16/02 at 04:52 PM

hehe...great way of describing/looking at it Bruce.

Posted by Agnes Eva on 04/26/03 at 04:54 AM

beautiful, those dancing sparks such a surprise at the end

Posted by Sam Roberts on 12/11/03 at 08:52 PM

I love it, being a smoker myself :) I am obsessed with poems about cigarettes, It is the only thing I enjoy writing about. You have done this very well indeed, they are such pretty little things. Best wishes x

Posted by Ginette T Belle on 01/20/04 at 08:48 PM

powerful haiku...

Posted by Thomas K. Hunt on 07/09/04 at 10:06 PM

excellent imagery

Posted by Meghan Helmich on 08/14/08 at 04:11 PM

that's it! i've seen it a million times, but that's it..in black and white.

Posted by Laurie Blum on 10/06/08 at 06:38 PM

How lucky am I to have found this little gem hidden away in your library. Very vivid!

Posted by Carolyn Coville on 08/13/12 at 06:59 PM

"asphalt fireflies" is brilliant! Way to make smoking seem pretty :)

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 11/30/13 at 06:33 PM

Congrats on POTD Bruce. Well deserving.

Posted by Gilly Wigley on 12/01/13 at 01:05 AM

I never thought of it that way, but now I will forever think of asphalt fireflies when I see someone toss one out their window. :) Congrats on POTD!

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 12/01/13 at 04:58 AM

Good to see this as POTD!

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