What is the title of the poem about a Mayfly that only lives for one day?

Is this it?

Are you sure you don’t mean this one?

Mayflies by Richard Wilbur

Those were not they way I remembered it. It had something to do with their whole life passing in just one day. They are born, live in a frenzy and die in that one day.

& some days, it rains all day.

Mayfly
by Mary Ann Hoberman

Think how fast a year flies by
A month flies by
A week flies by
Think how fast a day flies by
A Mayfly’s life lasts but a day
A single day
To live and die
A single day
How fast it goes
The day
The Mayfly
Both of those.
A Mayfly flies a single day
The daylight dies and darkness grows
A single day
How fast it flies
A mayfly’s life
How fast it goes.

@Ame_Evil You got it! That’s the one!

Nice poem!

Was it worth it? @worriedguy

Or have you just confirmed what you really thought of it?

@lloydbird Yes it was. I was trying to explain the poem to someone who has a family member with cancer. The conversation was actually brighter than you’d think. I was comparing us to being somewhere between Mayflies and Ents (from the Hobbit).

@worriedguy GA in that case. And well done.

Though still not so sure about the quality of the poem.