Best Papillon Poems

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Just a little Scribble 
Papillon is "Butterfly" in French

~ Upon wings, moments are Magical ~...

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 The sadness of life eats me

limb by limb

No longer can I walk

Tears flood my unmoving body

I crumble 

under the burden of grey skies

I lie rotting 

an afterthought 

The maggots that eat me

shall one day fly high in the skies

over the treetops

butterflies with expansive golden...

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Fragile wings calling
Living life in the moment
Beauty unaware...

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Flittering along with gossamer wings
She espied the lemony yellow rose
Alighting gently, her place to repose
Quietly, her thoughts vague whispery things

She’d flown from up north where the cold wind stings
Now basking in the sun’s glows
Plants and shrubs in haphazardly strewn rows
Resting, listening to natural things

Searching miles...

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Un prisonnier
Pas de guerre
Tout ce que j'avais
Cassé

La terre tient mon cœur
Elle tient mes mots
Mais pas plus, il n’y a rien encore
Cassé

C’est facile
Aussi c’est compliqué
C’est facile quand je dis
Pas compliqué, mais cassé

Tout ce qui a été dit a été dit
Je n'ai plus rien
Plus de mots
Plus de...

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cranial cocoon
caterpillar compromise
butterfly escape...

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cranial cocoon
caterpillar compromise
butterfly escape
perseverance frames our time
the mind's eye unlocks freedom....

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  o beau papillon 

~ o beautiful butterfly,

 

Have you whilom explored the inselberg,

To descry its allure,

And its rillets surge,

To see the coruscating sun,

And the meadows hushed afar,

The zephyr whisking leisurely, 

Or the bodach with his old guitar,

Have you at all espy the sapphire sky,

And...

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a glass magnifies

small lapdog
butterfly
landing perfectly
on a flat nose

the glass pushes detail
into a wide eye

the picture is a thumbnail

maximum enlargement
knocks over it digital frame

the butterfly
is mottled yellow and brown
a stand-out contrast to
the black nose

a background
is a female hand in mid-flight

we are all caught


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