Angst Butterfly Poems

A second ago.
Yes just a second,
she was beautiful 
beyond comparison.
Not a wrinkle or a frown line.
Succulent lips, 
glowing skin.
Gorgeous hair 
cascading down her back.
Even her...

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You told me I belong to you
That you know I love you true
But darling I’m not a succulent plant
What’s a chocolate woman to do

Love is...

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Cold feet weigh the bantam kid whose ears seized phantom
wail risk-taker jargon of win-or-lose bargain....

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I beat my wings
At the moment of exhale
Unaware the air had grown stale
I was a white washed wasp
With no sting in my tale
Maybe because daddy...

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Is there anything I could have done
so you wouldn’t run from your life
to the sky
my butterfly

What could I have said 
to keep you from the...

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I thought to write of butterflies.
Also of birds, their lovely song.
but then I came to realize
poems about them are miles long.
    ...

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Cruel World seeks hope within lies
We turn our heads as Mother Earth cries

Like birds, hope may fly when confronting lies.
Wee butterfly gives a try
to bring...

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BUTTERFLY IN TUTU

Butterfly in tutu, deliriously delusional, bright
with spangles, tapping her wings.  All knew
she was cocky with glorified golden teeth.

She followed the cockamamie caterpillar...

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A CATERPILLAR'S LAMENT
I have come this far,to end up under your shoe.No butterfly I. 
Indiana Shaw . . . 

"Went to the shops, and stepped...

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I Will Not

I will not live in fear
  I will not hide my pain
    I will not give in to hate
...

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A moth drawn to the 
ethereal light
exuded by a lucky few 
like you
to escape eternal night
I singed my wings
dreaming of brighter things
better days I’d been...

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She was beautiful in a way that only nature understood 
walking out into the sunlight she turned sunlight into Hyde   
raven black hair...

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Poetry, a search for language for
emotion, wanting clarity, is it worth
speaking on? For the sake of the 
good. It doesn’t mean it’s for the 
right,...

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I am alone with the butterfly
 I see in my eye 
How it flutters and fly 
It too has eyes 
as the tears run down...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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