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Best Monarch Butterfly Poems

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Monarch Butterfly
hanging from the foliage
in your hundreds
repainting the leaves
in bright shades
of black and orange
with your waterproof
gossamer wings
of four inch span
so fragile and 
yet so strong
enabling you...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, america, birth, butterfly, color,
Form: Free verse



The Monarch Butterfly
Dedicated To: Joe DiMino 

An ultimatum flight giving fancy, to monarch wings 
of beauty and grace. 
Towards the blazing sun she travels deep 
into the...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, appreciation, butterfly, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monarch Butterfly
Majestic wings flutter in the air
over sweet blossoms that waft perfume.
Nodding heads affirm there’s nectar there
as a proboscis probes each new bloom. 
Rays of golden...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, beautiful, butterfly, imagery, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Shall I Dare Think of Him
Shall I dare think of him?

The darkest glistening eyes,inviting me to sin.

Profoundly lost, when soft sounds from his throat called.

Twas a full moon Spring midnight...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, desire, sensual, spring,
Form: Free verse
I Smiled
I Smiled

lying under the hundred year oak

watching the vibrant android green leaves

sway in the soft southern summer breeze

daydreaming of the time we swayed

to the slow...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monarch butterfly, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sundown In Paradise
My blessing basket is heavy with heaven's gifts,
Tomatoes the size of my fist, eggplants so cute,
And fresh heirloom beans bursting with pride.

The sun, orange on...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, faith, , cute,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Butterfly Encounter
I walk through the wooded area near my home where a monarch butterfly greets me. I watch it as it swims into the air, letting...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, butterfly, hope, inspiration, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Butterfly Flutters By
As I stand on the shore of lake Huron in Ontario, Canada 
Marveling at all the beauty with autumn at her peek
I see what I...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, miracle, nature,
Form: Prose
Fantasy Spy
Fantasy Spy

Would that I, like a Monarch butterfly,
Could fly across the fertile land and spy,
Top tree and lilac bush in the evening hush,
Swooping down above...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, analogy, fantasy, world,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Her Beautiful Butterfly
She closed her hand over it
Tightly, oh, so tightly
Wanting to keep it
THIS TIME
She wouldn't let it fly away
As the others had done before

She felt the...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
A Marvelous Creation
Is a dream really a dream, or is it not as it seems?
Is a fantasy just a majesty of colored day beams?

To be in the...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monarch butterfly, beautiful, imagination,
Form: Couplet
The Seasons That Rhyme
I have walked  through the seasons of the year,
Summer brings us the warm sunlight,

The beautiful nature portrayed by the calm lake and tall trees,
A...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, natureautumn, snow, snow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer's Withered Bloom
“The carcass of beauty spent and done”
William Shakespeare.


The carcass of beauty spent and done
picked clean by scavengers of time,
whose sated memories of summer
ask for no...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Painful Daisy
Standing where I am when no one can see,
I see a picture of  a purple daisy staring at me.
A dew drop on top with like...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monarch butterfly, depression, emotions, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Prelude To Summer
A prelude to summer… spring’s glorious awakening
Green meadows are alive, littered with hundreds of wild flowers
Soft and wet, bright, green grass sway, unhindered by morning...

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Categories: monarch butterfly, butterfly, nature, spring,
Form: Narrative

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