As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneath a tinted sky of April blue
flight of fancy fanning fast, fabulous marvel, she is beauty true on true
Tis the vernal hour when nature's luster peaks and winter dirges no more wend.
Airy notes from feathered breasts, dutiful drones, bejeweled butterflies ascend.
Upon the indigo daze of an afternoon, my angel in lepidopteran disguise
danced along this florid patch with plush pirouettes, calling "Rose, arise!"
"Still here, a bloom to seek and hold." Groggy, dolt, my petals of discontent...
quiet cold stole my blush, then by cruel degrees, I learned snow's resentment.
But in a sun-lit-breeze ballet, God as big as the butterfly, weighing like nothing
revealed the signs of a world renewed, and ushered me thru the rite of spring.
Categories:
lepidopteran, butterfly, change, depression, environment,
Form: Couplet
Springs to Summer callings
In a year
I am only here, to flutter in flight
Rhopalocera four life stages
Egg, Larva Caterpillar pupa Chrysalis
I am flying, fluttering side to side
In differences heights
Floating in air, sometime suspended rare
Feelings of detachments, change is afoot
Painted lady not a prostitute
Cabbage White not a garden vegetable
Old world Swallowtail not a fish
Be it my fondest wish
Insect macro lepidopteran brightly colored wings
Conspicuous fluttering flight
Different shades of orange, yellows, blues greens and whites
Flight of the bumble bee not
Fly high fluttering Butterfly
Fly high, change afoot what’s already changed
In occurred waking life
5/8/21
2021©
For Nature Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Regina McIntosh
Free verse poetry form only.
Categories:
lepidopteran, analogy, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Egg to
caterpillar
which eats a lot of leaves
cocoons then emerges as but-
terfly
4/30/2020
Categories:
lepidopteran, butterfly, life,
Form: Cinquain