Butterfly Paradise Poems

I entered a competition
In a gardening magazine.
I had to write a poem
About a garden I had seen.

I chose a lovely garden
That was here in my...

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WHERE I AM FREE


My freedom lies beyond 
the cloud of unknowingness
beyond mists of time where
I disappear into olive groves
which furl and unfurl in slow dawns

Here...

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Love came by with an open heart.
Gave to me an amazing start.
Awaken anew with wonder of love.
My Father created me like a spirited dove.
Joy sprang...

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Well,
You know me, 
I'ma busy bee,
And you're an eager beaver.
Let's get this den shakin'
For we know it,
Spring is gunna be here.
Who gives a damn?
We can...

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UPON MUSHROOM HILL

There's so much happy upon that Mushroom hill
Children playing, skipping and jumping in joyous
Laughter heard between the black Jacobin shrills
Watched by watchful eyes,...

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A garden of beauty, your faces show,
your beauty among the hay scarecrow.
All the flowers smell so fruity,
Your faces show, a garden of beauty.



The summer is...

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Darting Arrows

Skippy shadows, 
at the corners of the walls, 
ceilings, and floors. 
Easiest seen by those that drink, 
do drugs, foreign or domestic. 
But they...

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Purple People Eater

My car. 
It is great. 
It takes me everywhere, 
Like a roller skate. 
I can not wait to go…
Again and again. 

We travel...

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Wispy clouds playful
Creating quilted sky art
A butterfly day...

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As darkness descends.
Tranquil as time flows past. 
With this precious rest.
Led out on the grass.

Sleepless slumber in dreamlike clarity. 
Summer thunder above a scenic prairie....

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Your Paradise is not for me,
will I get in?
Say am I clean
to show my feeling in short term,
am I in love?
Oh, yes, I am.
I love...

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For you, no evanescent love, it'll bud and bloom
Favored plethora by light of many moons

Oh yes, I'll revel in rhapsodic voice of yours
Old cupid will...

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My blessing basket is heavy with heaven's gifts,
Tomatoes the size of my fist, eggplants so cute,
And fresh heirloom beans bursting with pride.

The sun, orange on...

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Back in 1962 when I was just a lad
my dad gave me a holiday
the best I ever had.
A holiday of every dream
that one lifetime could...

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Castaways
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