I dive into thoughts, wishing my verses would soar ever higher
...I dive into thoughts, wishing my verses would soar ever higher,
Like a bird with boundless wings, lost in distant and divine horizons,
But they only float, like water birds with netted feet,
Tilti...
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Categories:
chrysalises, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Metamorphosis
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Like chrysalises or cocoons,
Each day we grow plumper,
not as insects feeding on leaves,
but as humans
consuming the totality
of lessons learned from our life experiences,
for life is our ch...
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Categories:
chrysalises, death,
Form: Free verse
The Butterfly
...Whatever stirs the tips of copper and urges buds to swell
comes with the suns expanding heat, a welcome spring induce,
for the urge is now returning from survivors of the winter
to prepare accompl...
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Categories:
chrysalises, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Songbirds of Life
...It starts out as a lullaby.
Incandescent,
Halcyon,
Full of felicity.
Tranquil and lithe
As it cascades through
Meadows of enchanting
Sweetness.
But, all too often
In this rhapsodic and cre...
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Categories:
chrysalises, 12th grade, abuse, cry,
Form: Free verse
The Wizard
...A capricious old wizard, with fastidious old cat
In an idyllic cottage, wears a manta and hat
Gulps an insidious potion, of chrysalises crushed
With dragon jam, root pulp, and magical dust
A rhap...
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Categories:
chrysalises, fairy, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Illusive Stripes
...Wafting on winds many miles from home.
Hovering together splashes of black and white.
A Zebra Longwing colony home from the day’s roam,
Oh, how happy I was to see that old familiar sight.
Monar...
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Categories:
chrysalises, animals, mystery, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Abiding Beauty
...Abiding Beauty
By Dane Smith-Jonsen
Above the fern at the forest's edge, a butterfly gracefully glides.
Beautiful yellow flittering near tastes the sugary buttercup.
Flashing sulphur wings...
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Categories:
chrysalises, naturebeauty, beauty, passion,
Form: Quatrain