Pupating Poems


Premium MemberDesperate Hope

...Is it owing to my age? Or power and position?
Am I, in my furnace of self-forsakenness, burning?
Have others abandoned me? Why's there no recognition?
In isolation, as flesh in a frying pan, I'm c...
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Categories: pupating, hope,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberMetamorphosis

...chrysalis of change
    pupating ~ outgrown old pals
        time to seek new mates


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Categories: pupating, analogy, butterfly, growing up,
Form: Haiku


Premium MemberBirth of a Butterfly

...I saw, indeed, aside a Sisyphus – stone
A lonely old little daisy standing alone
Fading and dying and nearly decaying
Closer to the brink of its grave bending
In her heart seemed a caterpillar, h...
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Categories: pupating, birth, butterfly, life,
Form: Free verse

Haiku - Time

...HAIKU
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

the light of day
the darkness of night
twenty-four hours

a moment in time
one blink... total darkness
a bat does not care

o summer sunshine
fourteen hours.....
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Categories: pupating, nature, philosophy, time, war,
Form: Haiku

I, Said the Fly

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I said the fly, "Have the need to pry,
my best point of view is your ceiling.
There I can spot any swats your concealing.
Us flies still can not understand why,
you humans find swatting...
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Categories: pupating, nonsense,
Form: Personification


Lepidoptera

...flowers transform
words in poetic lust
moth- butterflies
lepidoptera
pupating in a chrysalis
death of a caterpillar
reflections of the blue sky
in the clear dirty lake
censored emotions hide
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Categories: pupating, allegory,
Form: I do not know?

Strange

...A strange thing is happening to people I know,
At first they start laughing and then their minds go.

An incessant giggling’s the long road to doom,
Out of the world and back into the womb.

A ...
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Categories: pupating, workevil, fear,
Form: I do not know?
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