Chrysalis Poems - Poems about Chrysalis

Echoes of a Chrysalis

She makes her way out of the cocoon
Spreading wings so bright, they shine like the moon
Unaware of her impending doom
Not knowing that she too will pass soon

She flutters around like a fickle-minded child
In search of flowers with nectar sweet and mild
Unaware of her impending doom
Not knowing that she too will pass soon

She sets her gaze

Circular Chrysalis

The older
I get
the more
my hunger
for knowledge
grows

The more
my hunger 
for knowledge
grows
the younger
— I get

(The New Room: March, 2025)

SATURN GOD OF TIME

Saturn ! You magnetised with 
enchanting icy rings
promised white gold
endless skates on 
Chrysalis circled cates
said we would go round 
like fairy rings 
said you had so much
Love to give I would never 
go wanting nor be mere 
interstellar dove to shove
said we were a pair to
helium share winds to
dare !

One ring lemon yellow 
smiles metallic

Black Chrysalis

Humanity, the leaning yawl of infinite holes
God the tranquil sea for a millennium or so
Swells are growing bold as sky swirls gray
humanity, taking on barrels of water and salt
ivory gulls are shrieking at the crimson spray.

Biters and crawlers are awaiting the flesh
the universe is a distant shell of pure cold
a craft lies emptied on an

Granite Chrysalis

Jigsaw girl was a supreme pleaser
her pieces imperfectly placed by "the others".
Always the first to acknowledge the last to be noticed.
Nobody cared enough to really get to know her. 

One "other" paid her frailties some attention
loneliness always jumps at the first glance
to escape from its granite chrysalis...
but being stretched like silly putty never really lasts.
She

Chrysalis

Able to take change 
in smaller increments …
the total overwhelms

The pieces digested
in tiny fragments
absconding from the realm

— Breaking it down —
 taming the maelstrom 
 hail turns into rain

The whole reemerging 
inside my becoming
 transforming me again

(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)

Chrysalis of Time

In chambers still, where seconds sigh,
A transformation waits to fly.
The caterpillar, bound and curled,
Dreams of wings unfurl.

No frantic pace, no striving hand,
Just patient trust in shifting sand.
The silence holds, a fertile ground,
Where dormant strengths are slowly found.

From threads of fear, a cocoon spun,
A haven where fears are outrun.
Dissolving doubts, like silken strands,
New purpose ignites within

Chrysalis

A
Crimson 
sun
slowly
shrinks sharply
midst of
Ocean
of parch moans  
thrive and emerge 
chrysalis
harsh world
flaunt 
slow wings 
flap the hope
sparkling
the
poise grace
pride

Written: March 21, 2023

Chrysalis

desire to retreat
overpowers will to eat ~
cocoons out the light

sensing time is right
sun-drenched wings spread, lift in flight ~
transform is complete


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for the Spring Flower, Bird Or Butterfly Haiku X 2 Poetry Contest
sponsored by Tania Kitchin
written on 2/13/23

Chrysalis of Life

As I walked under a Willow tree to get relief from the heat.
I saw a beautiful caterpillar crawling on a leaf as it eats.

Suddenly it dropped from the leaf with only a thread to hang there.
It spun its silk as it struggled to surround itself in a cocoon so fair. 

Intrigued, I visit the tree

Chrysalis

Stepping through that door
Into the cosmos
Feels like you’re falling
Find out you’re flying
Transcending to the ethereal
Life was the cage
Death is release
You’re a butterfly now
You’re in a better place now

Chris and Alice

My name is Chris,
Her name is Alice,
We’re cocooned in
A plantastic palace,
While balanced on
The woodlands eaves,
We banquet on
What others leaves.

We’re pillers of
Socie-eat-he
We pay our debts
And dine for free,
But our sights are set
Up in the sky,
For we’ve been promised
One day we’ll fly!

Unborn Chrysalis

To be unrestrained and happy,
the only reverie I contemplated about.
For those who would never come by,
are the only prized memories now.
Every time fate crushed me,
I held on and bled.
Every time I tried to listen,
leaden silence deafened me.
Every time I longed for rainbows,
a deluge of tears filled my soul.
Barricade of orphanage culled me.
Empty stomach reigned my

Uranium Won

Selling uranium to Putin through CFIUS
Made less social sense than contracting syphilis
Unless to grow a Global reset chrysalis
Aiding American transformation abyss.

Putin may well employ Wyoming yellow cake
To cower Europeans with nuclear bake
Candled with cancerous cumulus mushroom clouds,
Granting his covering Ukraine with a death shroud.

Virgin

I emerged from the chrysalis 
of childhood and adolescence 
birthed once again 
into this world a woman
beaten, battered, and sore
cold and confused
Nothing was at all what I’d been led to believe
that I’d been promised by people in the past
who would say with confidence 
with wits like mine I’d go far
Colors faded from the resplendent hues

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