Long Swallowtails Poems

Deep in my thoughts, floats a harmonious strain - 
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Wild Cherries 
A giant snowball in springtime
From twenty yards out the sound and smell
Closer now; breathing her numbing scent
Listening to the drowsy hum
of greedy and jealous bees
forced to share her bounty
with Tiger and Zebra Swallowtails
School...

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A giant snowball in springtime
From twenty yards out the sound and smell
Closer now; breathing her numbing scent
Listening to the drowsy hum
of greedy and jealous bees
forced to share her bounty
with Tiger and Zebra Swallowtails
School will be...

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Sleep did not come easy, nor did dawn arrive
as a sweet kiss upon a cheek of hope, spring
has yet to dwell in all of winter's vacant spaces.

I lay there, long after sun slithered through the
creases...

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In the middle of the night, 
when the butterflies
dance to the moon's song,
I create constellations 
with the map of my soul, 
allowing astral lights 
across feathery skies 
to guide my chrysalis 
heart back to an...

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Georgia Brown

1898-1914

We were the deathless dream dancers

The crazy girls with secrets and surprises!

Me and Nellie and Trudy and Olive.

We waited monthly for the full midnight moon

Waited with no words uttered

Our secret times together,

Times and moments...

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Amazing antiquated alluring alligators
Bending ballistic beyond belief barbells
Crushing curious crimson crucial crocodiles
Delighting dark dank daring darling dwarfs
Enormously elongated elves effortlessly enthusing eagles
Feeling frisky, ferocious, fervently, fanatically fine.
Green gators goading gregarious grievous gargoyles
Hyped up hungry hippos...

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From the Painted Desert, head west
Past sagebrush, brittle bush, desert scrub
And The Petrified Forest at rest
To the Rocky Mountains above
Go past the Continental Divide
Below Douglas firs and pinyon pines
Head down the sunset side
Where the Colorado...

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Teardrops of dews glistening
Breaks the days of dawn
Caterpillars shedding shells of cocoon
Awakening with yawns

The little fairies quaintly appear
Dancing their favorite dances, all the day long
But, where do the butterflies dance to
When the sun hides her...

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Summer crept in
  slow, steady steps within,
dogged pacing of hot and humid days
  mixed messages of spring slipping away
and summer waiting to climb
  patient on the edges of space and time;

a butterfly,...

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Deep violet Hibiscus with velvety petals, 
On the quaint fence, sprawl the zestful creepers.
Mesmerizing tall branches of serene evergreen, 
With tricksy Swallowtails, Redbreast Robin merrily whistling.

Ebullient songs of chirping Hummingbirds,
Little bushy squirrel excitedly searching for nuts, 
Large leaves...

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It's the time of butterflies to fly
 angelic wings drifting hurried by
  in the powdered blue clouded sky;
retrograde illusions left from spring
 revolving a floating dance upon the wing
  venturing into summer's fling;
hovering...

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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, coy
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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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Frothy lacy Queen Anne ’s lace
Majestically surveys her field
The grasshoppers are flying today
Clipping onto tall grasses to launch themselves

Monarchs glide past; she preens, hoping one will stop.
She catches a young one, who strokes her appreciatively.
The...

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Cool showers gather on the side yard
graced by tiny weeds and Swallowtails.
March brings hope to dormant soil in
an open field.  Seeds now comforted
settle in to begin their germination.
This old, old story is retold, as...

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The butterflies have gone on their migratory jaunts
  flying south to warmer more conducive haunts
and as the flower blooms  begin to lessen
 few remain  in their singular essence
and some hold on and...

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My happy butterflies

Bright yellow wings, scalloped in velvety back, are fluttering 
In the mellow morning air,
Dancing in happy search of nectar on a purple, 
sweet scented clover bud.
Joined by his mate, equally wondersome decorated.
They greet...

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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 their confidence is what they do so wise...

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Little children love their sweet wishes and pecks
when tucked into bed for their nighthly dreams

Light winged butterflies in myriad colours
flutter in flapping open their dreamscapes

They glide in tranquilly in exotic rays
of painted glasswings and swallowtails

Pearl...

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Where mountains fade to valley shade
And trees give way to meadow's blade
Cottony cattail, wild lilies teem
Obscuring an enchanted stream

Tis there amongst the grassland rue
This tiny fairy village grew
I will not say just where they stay
And...

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Velvet wings of brown, blue and ebon midnight hue 
farfalla butterflies that soar close to magic colugos 
spring is here hanging in with wonder, life renews  
as the sun shines soft, from here to...

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Late summer floats along the deep blue sky
 and in the thick humid air by and by
 takes to flight, the butterfly.

Fragile creatures, colorful yet discrete
 slipping in on silent insect feet
 to dance light...

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first, 
it was a single entity
 an unbrilliant black charcoal sloe female by identity
 faded shadowy shades of stygian dark
slipping in and flitting flower to flower making mark

second,
two came dancing like onyx layers
 colors changed...

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the wayward child within us all
forever played by spring and fall
whose songs allay the will to flee
the wicked ways of errancy

as oftentimes a man will shun-
his promises to wife or son
to heed the call to...

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