A flutter of wings rattles heart strings
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“Her smile sent a flutter through my heart like a whispered secret on the wind.” – Unknown
“A single glance from you, and suddenly my heart remembers how to dance.” – Atticus
“Love begins in a moment, grows over time, and lives in the flutter of a heartbeat.” – Unknown
“My heart skipped, then fluttered, like a startled bird.” – (adapted from Jane Eyre)
“There’s a flutter in the heart before the truth finds its voice.” – Nikita Gill
“Every once in a while, someone touches your heart so gently, it flutters like wings unfolding.” – Unknown
“That flutter in the chest—that’s not anxiety, it’s the soul stretching toward what it wants.” – Victoria Erickson
“My heart flutters not in fear, but in awe—of what could be, of what already is.” – Lang Leav (inspired)
“Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?”— Edward Lorenz, meteorologist and pioneer of chaos theory.
Listen to poem:
A flutter stirs in my chest,
Awaking it from its inattentive rest.
As a tiny butterfly wing unfurled,
To unleash a quake in nether world.
Such chaos reeks as tremor grows,
It billows and flaps as tempest bestows,
An effect far beyond what reason deserves,
From a flip of wing, hors d'oeuvres.
A simple glance, a glint from eye,
Triggers my heart to offbeat awry,
To blast a chain reaction melee!
All order is lost - May Day, May Day!
A wing flap in Brazil, a tornado in Texas brings,
A tiny ripple in the cosmos that sings,
A reverberating chaotic chorus to heart strings,
Tuned to quiver sympathetic, to resonant dings.
Copyright © John Anderson | Year Posted 2025
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