Josefina Costales Poet Free verse

Butterfly Child

Breeze is gentle over a path dappled in sunshine
as child runs around the garden no sense of mischief
chases a butterfly flitting by capricious as the wind.

Now she stands very quiet and still,
as if caught in the split second of a near-trance, 
butterfly ceases its flight to perch on her nose.

Child and butterfly - alike in a separate attentiveness,
balanced and held in equilibrium by a nip of nature,
an eternity snatched in a rare and precious moment.


@jjote 0816/2015

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Emile Pinet August 17, 2015 at 11:46 AM The conscious mind extends itself beyond our norms and we enter a world composed of reality defused with imagination where beauty is tentative and so precious as to awe us with its purity and scare us with its fragility. Emile. Josefina Costales August 20, 2015 at 10:57 AM Thanks Emile. And for being perceptive in catching the message of my poem.