Long Swallowtail Poems

"transference"


transference 
in a narcissistic world
propaganda for the 
unsuspecting
validation 
for the damaged

writers 
soldiers 
victims 
survivors
war fought daily
in shallow trenches

buckling at the knees
stand up 
brave comedians 
salute compatriots and cowards 
caught in their camouflaged net
all the crumbling...

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Any face of before was there suppressed;
Two and no one the sinner’s wicked face
Was looking; and such way slow pace progressed.

As the green lizard when so strong lambastes
The heat wave of day, then changing the...

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Color me white like the color of the wall
Color me white to be seen by all
Color me white to stand tall

The patches of black all over me 
The dark spots that all can see
Are my...

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Das papa anathema & furor he hiss toward patriarchal hierarchy

Courtesy mine eldest sister Amelie
Beth (thirteen plus months my senior),
whose maternal love equals heart as emoji,
she nsync with other kith and kin
painstakingly fleshed out family tree,
formerly...

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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, happily spreading, upon a placid breeze rides.
The...

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Musky fragrance inundates
my nostrils as I enter 
the garden center:
a rhapsodic feeling
in idyllic surroundings.
The air is humid
like an Amazon garden,
heat barely tolerable
making my glasses misty.
Soft music, dulcet and sweet,
swamp the amazing conservatory. The caterpillar had...

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Such a funny bunny! 
             Hopped in my garden, 
             Grabbed...

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They float rather than fly with their kite-tailed long wings,
watch them descending on tulips, blueberries and lilacs: 
these butterflies are yellow-green striped and love pawpaw trees;
imagine Nature without their fluttering sounds and stunning colors! ...

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The sun shines bright, 
 brilliant glowing white
 and the last flowers of the day, 
 catch the last of summer rays.

Morning glories wake
 white, purple, pink along the gate
 and the climbing roses wither...

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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,...

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Determined to build a country house, we sought land
When we pulled up to this farm gate it was a mess
Brambles and weeds probably hid black snakes
Cobwebs showed us no one had walked this land for...

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Divine tiger swallowtail butterfly.
   Oh, look what a fragile beauty it is! 
       Alighted on orange honeysuckle
         Under a...

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By a gently flowing creek –
   I saw a swallowtail flutter
About my head, as though meek –
   And land softer than a feather. 

He was large enough, I swear –
 ...

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The swallowtail butterfly defying all distance
Hold its course against the sun
And seek through space a migrant's chance
Of flying to the land of its birth

The hornbill turtle tunneling its watery way
Swim against the tidal flow
To find...

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Rushes sway gently in the wind
They murmur ballad of the old
Deal with humanity fury wills rescind
Sunset is glorious sky is azure and gold

Air grows dense and thick as it passes by
Continents their secrets will unveil...

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A Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly lands
Upon Purple Wild Petunia's blossom
Sipped a drink of nectar, flew; life unplanned

Soon the sunny morn turns into eve; clouds come
Thunder and lightning off in distance sound
Cool air floats, peace overtakes, all...

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cherry blossoms bright
                                ...

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Black swallowtail butterfly
Shared the garden with Ruby
That beauty was just whirring by
Dancing inbetween was the white
Cabbage butterfly wanting to be seen

Drawing all the nectar to be found
In the plants that still abound
With blooms and scent
Giving...

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The mustard seed 

a wild mustard seed took flight 
carried aloft in gathering light 
over thistle'd sage and poppies  
in countless colorful copies

as brash rain showers subside 
the retreat of angry clouds abide
scolded by...

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Small red casting on morn's horizon
Shadowery fog cast veil on hill and vale
Symphony's music fills airwaves at dawn
Not a jet exhaust in sight no sign of swallowtail

Would be quiet except for man's presence
Man making his...

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As the Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly
Kisses the Purple Phlox tenderly now
Brings memories of summer that flew by
So long ago, hidden away somehow

Memories of that month at the beach_ when
I first saw you long slender body; tan
Skin,...

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Love flutters like a Tiger Swallowtail
Bouncing over flowers, light as a sail
Lifting my heart on its wings in the air
This Spring day surrounded by nature's care
The chipmunks scurry across the stonewall
Where so many scattered leaves...

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As the lilacs  swayed in the summer breeze
a monarch  floated by with fluttering ease
he landed quite softly with a regal kiss
the lilacs were   now in a crown of bliss

He then went...

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shared relationship~food and pollination~tiger lily and butterfly  

female democrate~trail blazer in politics~a new president


yellow swallowtail ~butterfly clings to lily~summer drenching rain


          
barn swallows in...

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The burst of fuchsia colored flowers, brightens the yard
Having grown over the years, it spreads further now
Big blooms that attract the Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
They stand out like fireworks on a dark, cloudy day
Stop, look, see...

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