Poet Destroyer A Poet Free verse

Butterflies

BUTTERFLIES

Clouds passing by swiftly.
Like the desert sands,
tiny grains rest in my hand.
Here I lay peaceful on the ground.
My life finally reached its final strand.
Breathing faintly with no sound.
My life slowly slips back into Gods hands.
Counting each beat from my heart.
Leaving behind this shallow land.
Taking a long glimpse of this magical world.
Something came to carry me away.
Without giving me a chance to say goodbye.
This wind gave me a sensation in not wanting to stay.
Gliding away into the blue sky. 
Finally I feel this heavy load removed.
I look back and see where my body still lays.
An empty temple, no longer full of grace.
My life in front of me revealed.
Blessed for all those days I would pray.
God protecting me with his shield.
Kept his promise to take me back one day.
Now I am back where I belong.
Pass the horizon of the ocean sky.
Living among the butterflies.
Reunited with my love ones.
Angles flutter into the sky.
When your life on earth is done.
For you I will wait beyond the sun.
Somewhere deep beyond the skies. 
Your day soon will come with butterflies.

~SKAT~   *re-post*

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Freddie Robinson Jr. October 21, 2016 at 1:20 PM I love the butterfly metaphor for this poem, PD. It works very well. Beautiful imagery and POV aspect. The metamorphosis part was done equally as well. Excellent poem. Much love to you. RW

Sneha Rv April 15, 2016 at 1:26 PM Oh, how beautiful!! This is lovely, dear Linda!! :) :)

Robin Davis November 13, 2013 at 7:25 AM Linda This write is sad and emotional in a peaceful sort of way. You took a sorrowful subject and made it serene and sweet. Nice job Hugs Thanks for the nice comments on my Hero Of My Heart poem

Colleen Bono May 19, 2013 at 1:43 PM Every page of your poems I pick has one with a message.Hope your days are without headaches.take care

Len Gasun December 7, 2012 at 8:32 PM Hi, my sisie-pooh! Thank you so much for your message the other night. I'm so sorry. I did not stay in soup for a longer period of time these past few days because I got sick (flu). Too humid here. But now I'm getting better. I'll come back after my class this afternoon. Again, thank you so much. Sending you my biggest hugs, love always and forever, Leonora

John Rhinem January 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM Smile ˜ Once more the depth in passions door ˜ Brought forth amid wonderful colours stirring atop creativies profound palette * My Dear Beautiful & Much More Than Just Beautiful Linda * Sooo Much Beauty Inside of You * It's amazing, when I reflect to realize these gifts in splendours which spell Your Beautiful Truth * To see beyound the curtains into the heart I find ˜ Tis sooo to love * Your Endless Beauty * I have no doubt amid my mind that * Yesss, "GOD" * Is going to smile into Your Beautiful Eyes one day ˜ Beautiful painting by a beautiful astonishing lady & majestic poetess ˜ I will favour this butterfly in loves mirrored image * My Love to You, Forever & Always; John!:) ˜

Sarah Seraphin November 25, 2011 at 1:55 PM * "Beautiful Butterflies * Soft Their Silk * Wings Like Petals * Sweetened In Fragrance * Sweet Beautiful Linda * My Luv, Always & Forever * 'Butterflies As Dreams' * Sarah." *

Kabuteng P.Ink K. November 5, 2011 at 12:44 PM I think I remember this write-- shucks, what a sad write but hmm I really like it-- has a beautiful air about it-- but nooo why is it that whenever I see the word butterfly, I keep on thinking of Mariah Carey??? urrrghhh. and yeep I better sleep! but darn i can't seem to upload my chocolate photos so boohoo for you...

Jslambert Mister Roboto November 4, 2011 at 1:32 AM This one is Fly as Planes! I digg it! I wrote one recently that said: "Butterflies arrive, now everything's alright, on this stage, nerves shake my rage, and yeah, it's on tonite!"---I love your poem here! Thank you for your kind comments on my "Day of Ones In The Sun" poem. I entered it into the only other contest I saw that you have available. I hope I that I did what you meant to do. Lemme know If I messed up! "AUSPICE...awwwww Spice....now that's some Spice, alright! :)

M.I.A . October 29, 2011 at 4:48 AM PD, thank you for always stopping by and say hi. This is beautiful piece in quite a disturbing way (ha3, always a good way for me). I tend to embrace darkness as a part that can take me farther to that perfect place, so I embraced the feeling of 'dying a little bit'. it takes time, but with the right discipline, even 'death' could be enlightenment. 'To die before you die' as The Great Prophet said in my tradition. My best wishes fellow traveler, we're walking in the same desert! ^.~

Nathan D. October 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM enough lies people this crap a huge pile of it and everyone of you liars needs to stop coddling people the soups needs some honesty no more ass kissing for me

Phyllis Babcock October 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM no one said the journey in life would be easy and no one gets thru the journey of life with out times of sorrow and times of joy. We have very dark moments where the mind refuses to do anything -it becomes frozen and we become numb but then we have times where we have utmost joy and we feel alive and full of life. A powerful write with this poem. love phyl

Dinda Minardi October 26, 2011 at 9:35 AM ~SKAT~ is you??? This is amazing... Reading this was like a journey of one's life... love every each line.. thanx for your kind comment in my WOMAN. the language is in bahasa (Indonesian lang). Takecare, Linda :)

Terrell Martin October 23, 2011 at 3:14 PM Nice piece of poetry Mr. Destroyer. And may I say thanks for your comments on "Thoughts are No Less Things" a few days ago. Nice of you to drop by and I owe you a few more visits myself. I'll be back...

James Fraser October 23, 2011 at 2:26 PM I traversed your words many times pd, and arrived in different worlds. This makes the power of words and writing, along with a clever poet, simply fantastic. Thank you so much for your always kind words :)

Don Johnson October 22, 2011 at 4:15 AM Great poetry here, so sincere, seeming to run away, worries guys, if they espy, their lady goes away, sometimes...

Matthew Brackley October 22, 2011 at 1:43 AM hello, your day too ,has come with butterflies, lovely,thank you very much for choosing me as the winner! love and light,matthew

Shannon Deane October 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM P.D. I thought this was a fantastic and beautifully written piece, your words flow brilliantly off the page...luv shannon

Andrea Dietrich October 21, 2011 at 10:42 AM Irma, don't put down the thumb suckers. I was one a long time ago. hahaha (but not as bad as my sisters were!)

Poet Destroyer A October 21, 2011 at 9:36 AM butterfly in the sky i can fly twice as high just take a look its in a book teh reading rainbow i can go anywhere friends to know ways to grow its a reading rainbow i can be anything just take a look its in a book a reading rainbow a reading rainbow long live lavar burton

Broken Butterfly October 21, 2011 at 8:26 AM This poem made me cry it is really beautiful. Can I have it as a fav poem. I did enter your halloween contest, should I put my name on the entry?

Zzzzz Zzzzz October 21, 2011 at 8:01 AM An imaginative write. Poetic too.

Anne Rutherford October 21, 2011 at 6:40 AM Absolutely beautiful P D, every line is magnificent.going in my favourites . Anne

Sara Kendrick October 21, 2011 at 5:23 AM Enjoyed reading your creative and emotive work..Very impressive...Thanks for stopping by..I appreciate you letting me know that I placed in your contest..That butterfly with the face of a dog on its wing is a very interesting creation that caught my attention as did this creative poem that you have composed..Sara

Andrea Dietrich October 20, 2011 at 9:36 PM This is an AWESOME one from you, IRma!!! Did I ever see it before I wonder?? A fave for this one!

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