Best Swallowtail Poems

They float rather than fly with their kite-tailed long wings,
watch them descending on tulips, blueberries and lilacs: 
these butterflies are yellow-green striped and love pawpaw...

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Butterfly floating
Southern Blue Swallowtail Lays
Love on Meadow Rue

Soon caterpillars
Stinking like skunk munch and munch
Meadow Rue for  lunch

The air is filled 
Miniture blue sailing off
To...

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The mustard seed 

a wild mustard seed took flight 
carried aloft in gathering light 
over thistle'd sage and poppies  
in countless colorful copies

as brash...

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green caterpillar
pupates....
yellow swallowtail

                   gardener's inner joy ...

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Musky fragrance inundates
my nostrils as I enter 
the garden center:
a rhapsodic feeling
in idyllic surroundings.
The air is humid
like an Amazon garden,
heat barely tolerable
making my glasses misty.
Soft...

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A Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly lands
Upon Purple Wild Petunia's blossom
Sipped a drink of nectar, flew; life unplanned

Soon the sunny morn turns into eve; clouds come
Thunder and...

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a waterfall flows
from mountainside to ocean -
distant reggae song

clear waters light sky -   
where blue meets turquoise vista 
a swallowtail hums 




Written 6/22/20
Contest...

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The burst of fuchsia colored flowers, brightens the yard
Having grown over the years, it spreads further now
Big blooms that attract the Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
They stand...

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cherry blossoms bright
                      ...

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Any face of before was there suppressed;
Two and no one the sinner’s wicked face
Was looking; and such way slow pace progressed.

As the green lizard when...

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Pines release their yellow pollen
Gold coats all surfaces
Unaware of the freshly grave dug
Sadness family faces

A lovely spring day for some gathered
Rain clouds for others there
Standing...

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Don't call me immigrant
Call me cherry tree
With pink and white cherry blossoms
Don't call me immigrant
Call me sunny butterfly
With swallowtail
Don't call me immigrant
Call me yellowtail snapper
In...

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Color me white like the color of the wall
Color me white to be seen by all
Color me white to stand tall

The patches of black all...

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shared relationship~food and pollination~tiger lily and butterfly  

female democrate~trail blazer in politics~a new president


yellow swallowtail ~butterfly clings to lily~summer drenching rain


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Creeping from leaf to leaf
Calculating its moves
Creating its next phase…
Chrysalis born anew
Casting forth butterfly!
Common name swallowtail,
Character is to soar.

 8/22/16

Pleiades C contest
Sponsor Kim Merryman...

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