Butterfly Blank Verse Poems

Valhalla 

rest day
Sunday is the day of rest for most people
except for cooks, servers, and housewives 
They have Mondays
that day hasn't got many customers ...

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I have lived a long life of 86 years,
now I relive my past memories of hopes and dreams
when I was young and thoughts of success...

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Butterina is not the faerie you see every day on Manhattan streets
you would not be spotting her sharing a Celtic Irish dance either
No matter how...

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I followed the dust particle floating across my room;
more interesting than the flickering TV it passed,
rising rapidly from the heat the screen generated,
swirling for a...

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Meeting a princess

It was, according to the old, the coldest winter
any could remember, the wise said it was because 
the war had disturbed the weather...

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Angry George came roaring over the hill
Monkeys masqueraded as his army
A lizard wrapped around his steed, ready to help
Turtles at his feet, were at the...

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The Artist


On the terrace in the building across the road
a woman is sweeping her terrace; on another terrace
one the floor up, a woman is watering...

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Travel to Algarve

Eight boxes in a row in the middle of a grimy room, boxes looking
like each other. What’s in the boxes? The stale air...

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Night settles softly
On the evening shade,
As the sun takes leave
And the colors fade.

Nature slows her pace
And the world grows still,
As the creatures of night
Begin to...

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Gorgeous petals blew up in light of dawn,
gracing the air with their lovely fragrance;
Casting their rays like the dazzling sunshine; 
Spreading their wings like the...

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One needs to believe in good ~ not evil, 
our life is short then we go far away. 
Many believe in the heaven above, 
many...

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Emerald paradise keeps purple violets and yellow daffodils true
Possibly an enchanted nirvana, selected for my eyes alone.
Air so clean here, the monarch butterfly is singing...

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If there was ever a perfect day it is this day
Blue sky, monarch butterfly, twin cardinals,
sunshine, gentle breeze, slightly singing wind chimes,
comfy cat, happy dog,...

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father figures

I never knew my father well as he was not at home
I think it had something to do with other women
mother divorced him and...

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Divine tiger swallowtail butterfly.
   Oh, look what a fragile beauty it is! 
       Alighted on orange honeysuckle
...

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