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Butterfly Wings

Reach through the glass to where A thousand suns ripple in the rivers of your hair Reach through the glass to where A garden of roses blooms in a moon beneath your eyes Reach through the glass to where Earthquakes resounding chaos reside in your quivering lips Reach through the glass As my clouds begin to roll away To where my raindrops danced on the tongues of gods bowing at my feet voracious starving dogs quenchless and subservient ignorant and blind as their worlds crumble and fall and every ancient star and dancing horse in the night sky collide with the invisible walls of futility and I trample on all and nothing in a spiraling cataract of silver water and a silken spray on a butterfly’s wing fluttering the childhood fields of yesteryear and evermore forever young in brilliant dance immortalized in wheat and dirt and wind and rain and I stand defiant! To where my fingertips can reach no further. Butterfly wings in fields of concrete. Bland.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 11/12/2010 4:05:00 PM
Congratulations on going forward into second round..Sara
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Date: 11/10/2010 9:07:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry making it through the first round of the Poetrysoup site contest Mahmood. The best to you in the finals. Love, Carol
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Date: 11/9/2010 10:35:00 AM
Dear Mahmood, I congratulate you on your poem winning the semi finals. I wish you victory in the finals. -Mohammad
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Date: 8/5/2010 9:34:00 PM
Congratulations for your being featured this week. Love, iolanda
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Date: 8/5/2010 4:33:00 PM
Congratulations on your poem being featured. It is a work of art! Aloha, Connie
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Date: 8/5/2010 5:06:00 AM
Congrats on having your poem being featured on the Poetry Soup home page this week. Please keep your creative caps on, let your poetry pen keep painting your poetry pads with colors of creativity. Enjoy the honour. Love always, Adeleke
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Date: 8/4/2010 10:29:00 AM
I like the runaway, druggy, perpetual motion of this piece. It happens in a flash, yes? Congrats on this fine piece of imagination. Love,Dave
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Date: 8/3/2010 6:27:00 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved poem being featured this week Mahmood. Love, Carol
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Date: 7/12/2010 11:55:00 AM
Enjoyed this write today. Please check out my latest criminals part 3 when you have time.. ofcourse the story isn't true. Have a great day.
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Date: 7/6/2010 3:48:00 PM
Thank you for sharing your poetry with us here at PoetrySoup Mahmood. I hope you plan on being here and writing for years to come. It was a pleasure to read your poetry today. Wishing you the best always. Love, Carol
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