Midsummer Fritillary
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Written: March 18, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand
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I swapped worry for a searing abyss
a painter brush colorizes gold fields
convertin...
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Categories:
fritillary, appreciation, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Butterflies
...They slip in unnoticed
just below the burning rays of the sun solstice
lighting on the last flowers of summer bare,
sweet nectar wafting in the heavy laden air,
colors brilliant, glowing, c...
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Categories:
fritillary, butterfly, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Keepers of the Flowers
...The keepers of the flowers’ secrets arrive in their season
Monarch, viceroy, red-spotted purples, given a good reason.
They bring fantasy and delight to the lilacs and bleeding heart.
Keeping thei...
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Categories:
fritillary, butterfly, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Thus They Blossomed
...Crocus, like a purple diamond,
Golden pollen-jewels within;
Sensational; seducing; and
Enrapturing my home garden…
Daffodil, cheering with delight,
As gorgeous as a butterfly;
Golden-yellow a...
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Categories:
fritillary, color, flower, garden, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
fritillary, nature,
Form: Haiku
Frit
...One little fritillary
Hiding in the weeds
Shrivels up and fades away
Scattering its seeds....
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Categories:
fritillary, earth day, flower, garden,
Form: Quatrain
Wild Life Words
...Adder,badger
barn owl
black hairstreak
silver studded blue
damsel fly
fritillary
sundew-
Marsh helleborine
Duke of Burgundy
goat willow too-
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Categories:
fritillary, bereavement, nature,
Form: Free verse
Hats
...Hats are such a marvel,
when the weather is so garbled,
A multitude of quick coverlets to warm the brain
protect the head from snow, wind and rain.
A dapper, flamboyant chapeau
to quic...
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Categories:
fritillary, cool, february, wind,
Form: Couplet
Tomorrows Soldier
...I am alone
No food no water
No mother no father
I am a shell
I am afraid
I shiver
The night’s cold
I long for the warmth of.......
ISIS shall be your blanket
We shall provide you the warmth
We sha...
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Categories:
fritillary, angel, philosophy, war,
Form: Light Verse
End of Season
...Fritillary on
buds of my butterfly bush,
soon both will be gone....
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Categories:
fritillary, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Comma Butterfly
...~The Comma Butterfly~
I am a comma-not a full stop
I’m tawny brown and black and love on stinging nettles to hop
I love the elm and hop plant for flitting on too
I do all the other th...
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Categories:
fritillary, nature, beauty, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Fritillary
...I flit and flutter on the wind
blown as the spirit leads,
drawn by colour and intense needs,
my journee erratically unfolds-
I alight,spread my wings,
in still life,to make poets sing.
A sixa...
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Categories:
fritillary, nature, places
Form: Verse
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:
fritillary, naturebeauty, beauty, passion,
Form: Quatrain
Fritillaria, (Snakes Head)
...Where diamonds shape a lantern
harlequins are taunted in jest,
which inaugurates the conviction
attracting an upheld stance.
They stare like a drastic mistake;
thinking it was a corn snake.
W...
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Categories:
fritillary, nature, visionary,
Form: Verse