Nature Caterpillar Poems

Would you like to be a butterfly
with wings and fancy stuff?

Would you like a metamorphosis?
Make sure you eat enough!
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One sunny day little Mary Miller
Picked up a mottled green caterpillar,
Which became a monster moth. 
One fine morn her dad grew wroth:
Her moth laid eggs...

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Your transition is a miracle 
A Divine orchestrated Oracle 
Like the ever-changing caterpillar 
Metamorphosed into a butterfly 

 Graceful and Beautiful
 Bright and Colourful 
Gracefully...

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the caterpillar
somehow knowing
not to fear death



posted on June 29, 2019...

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boots
all caterpillar season
banned from mudroom



posted on August 12, 2018...

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The Butterfly and the Caterpillar

“This is the end,” said the caterpillar.
“This is the beginning,” said the butterfly.

The butterfly is fulfilling its goal by leading
the life...

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Caterpillar falls.

The dawn from drunk consciousness,
awakes from the darkness of night.
An eagle stares at the back of wind,
then floats downstream till the current ends,
and dips...

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Ah what wondrous happenstance,
For a worm to reach by chance,
The form of a beautiful butterfly,
And sip the dew dew drops where they lie,
On silken petals...

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inching down a leaf
you nibble voraciously …
time for your afternoon nap

hanging from a twig
wrapped in a pure silk blanket
metamorphosis occurs

butterfly hatches
wings unfold in warm sunshine
dazzling...

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Oh hairy, striped, hungry worm;
It's your business your about.
By fall you'll be a fluttering moth,
Once you've turned inside out.

Until then sit and rest awhile,
Upon that...

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The caterpillar,
Who spends half of its life
Bound to the ground,
Or clinging to a leaf,
Spins a cocoon and  falls asleep,

But who, can you tell me,
When...

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I lazily stroll on a leaf,
carrying my fatty weight with me,
wondering how beautiful the butterflies are.

They tell me that they were once like me,
carrying their...

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caterpillar dreams
of wings and sweet nectar -
while munching tough leaves...

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Caterpillar
Segmented, Colorful
Crawling, Nibbling, Hiding
Larva, Cocoon, Wings, Freedom
Fluttering, Landing, Pollinating
Pristine, Delicate
Butterfly



By: Greg Stanley
For Brian’s “Sixes and Sevens” Contest...

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intuitive pecuilar &
glancing great gestures
peering about- i see
you whispershout
taking teeny tiny pieces 
of me at a time
i'm a puzzle frazzled
can't stick together- you
can't see any...

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