Broken Butterfly

Life from a cocoon
This butterfly emerges 
A fragile beauty
With a pair of graceful wings
Yet her flight conceals a bruise

Edward J. Ebbs - January 31, 2015



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Vladislav Raven

January 16, 2016 at 11:04 PM

Hi Ed, another beautiful piece of poetry from your pen. How strange so many of us fly through life broken but there is still beauty within us. The broken butterfly still does fly with beautiful wings, a poem that gives hope....Vladislav. A seven rating

Edward Ebbs

January 17, 2016 at 7:46 AM

Thank You Vladislav, you have a gift for seeing through the eyes and heart of those who write as such...

Constance La France

May 23, 2015 at 8:29 AM

Ed, I came back to this lovely poem because I see myself as a broken butterfly, yet even broken I can fly, although you words are few the beauty is great and thanks for visiting my poem, home of my childhood, you know I went back to the neighbourhood as an adult and it was a slum, but the memory of the beauty lingers

Constance La France

June 21, 2015 at 8:02 AM

oh my gosh, Ed, and that is why I say myself in your beautiful words, I am so honored and you captured my reflection brilliantly

Edward Ebbs

June 21, 2015 at 1:30 AM

The poem is your reflection; we were instructed to "Write a poem about someone on Soup"

Edward Ebbs

May 23, 2015 at 11:04 AM

Yes, I know you do, and I know you can still fly...