Butterfly Free Verse Poems

August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour...

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Yesterday, today, tomorrow.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 O' clock,
24 hours,
365 days,
cocoon to butterfly,
7 days.
Over and over and over.
Again.
When you turn 5, you become a kid.
No more sippy cups or...

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something big and black flew overhead
we both looked up, the dog and I
wings unlike a butterfly
it flew back up into the sky

a wasp? a wisp?...

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love is the divine, woven bliss
like the blooming dawn...

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Stop
Too much
Is enough
Grief seeping through my body
Rendering me to surrender
To a time and place
Where my world came crashing down
Where I’m swimming against the tide
Fighting the...

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A busy bee browses the lavender bush
Collecting sweet nectar no doubt
Visits loads of blue flowers
Goes on round about.

Some distance away tall buddleia blooms. 
Its long...

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WATCHING OVER ME
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A soothing breeze caresses my face
softly murmuring a sweet lullaby as it slowly drifts by.

I feel the presence of my ancestors, of those...

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Under the veil of silence, thoughts float like the shadows of lost dreams,
In the labyrinth of time, where seconds whisper echoes of longing,
It is the...

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Your divorcing words rip at me.

Like a callous young boy
who tears the wings off
of a butterfly,
then throw
Its butchered body
into the air
and yells "fly".

Although I still...

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clapping their wing
with
effortless grace
the
seamless flight
of
the
black butterfly
spiraling
through
the
baritone blue sky
let
us
walk by fath
and 
not by sight...

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Butter Fly

    the butter
~*                *~
  ...

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A clash between two atoms.
An explosion — the Big Bang.
And so it began: with an eruption.

A cry of fire.
A chaotic dance of matter.
A beginning born...

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Meadow of clustered flowers
fragrant bouquets of petals
pinks purples yellows whites
~ a delightful extravaganza

Spreading their joy like tentacles 
they entice butterflies and bees
while the sun keeps...

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I can't escape hearing the voices.
Even when, I myself, am utterly alone,
Even when the plea for peace,
is threadbare, shredded into tatters 
of shrugged-off 'don't matters'.

The...

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Date : July 26, 2025
Contest : Three Options In I
Sponsor : Constance La France

“Imagination is potent inspiration,
motivating the minds of creation.”- By Poet


I drift on...

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