Short Swallowtail Poems

a swallowtail
silently shouts pure beauty
gracing my garden...

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Blessed purple phlox
Visited by swallowtail
Sphinx hummingbird moth...

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you look like christmas
thick fuzzy swallowtail
your secrets are safe...

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Yellow Swallowtail
Frail wings, spots of cyan blue
Flew on flitting sails....

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yellow swallowtail
slurps purple butterfly bush...
storm brews rain descents   ...

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yellow swallowtail
flit along searching for blooms....
busy four-lane road     ...

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green caterpillar
pupates....
yellow swallowtail

                   gardener's inner joy  

non-traditional...

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Southern Butterfly
The Green dill gave him a thrilll 
Caterpillars born

Caterpillars gone
Dill eaten none remains now
Empty stems no chance...

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swallowtail unseen
amidst pungent garden green
whilst darkness hardens



1/31/2020


Poetry Contest: Strict Haiku  
Sponsored by: William Kekaula...

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i came to the Amazon to find myself
red swallowtail butterfly came to my aid
she gave me beauty, joy, and mirth
it was more than enough
it was everything...

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gorgeous swallowtail blue with your ebony tipped wings
showing your veins as you glide into the cone flowers
I am intrigued, excited, and thrilled
You are my call to spring...

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yellow swallowtail butterfly
                                                  
                                                      clings to tiger lily's blossom  ...

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As I watered hanging flowers in garden’s space,
A tiger swallowtail landed in front of my face
My mind drifted off to a far away place
As I was mesmerized, by its fluttering grace

Heidi Sands

5/25/18...

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                                                 Flashes of yellow
                                     Trimmed in black floats, rest, flies, rest....
                                                  Yellow Lantana...

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Butterfly floating
Southern Blue Swallowtail Lays
Love on Meadow Rue

Soon caterpillars
Stinking like skunk munch and munch
Meadow Rue for  lunch

The air is filled 
Miniture blue sailing off
To mate for their day...

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Creeping from leaf to leaf
Calculating its moves
Creating its next phase…
Chrysalis born anew
Casting forth butterfly!
Common name swallowtail,
Character is to soar.

 8/22/16

Pleiades C contest
Sponsor Kim Merryman...

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a waterfall flows
from mountainside to ocean -
distant reggae song

clear waters light sky -   
where blue meets turquoise vista 
a swallowtail hums 




Written 6/22/20
Contest - Summer Haiku
Sponsor - Tania Kitchin...

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bird poop
covering the orange tree –
giant swallowtail


We had these caterpillars on our little citrus tree until heavy rains washed them away.  :(  We were hoping for flying flowers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYE15ktObVQ...

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*The photo is much more clear, but when I upload it, it only shows the URL.  Then when I copy, it is blurry.

Pink, Fuchsia flowers
Blossom in the hanging plant
Above the garden
Where the Tiger Swallowtail
Decides to visit today

Heidi Sands

7/18/20...

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Butterflies
~~~~~~~~~
Swallowtail a family title
Demeanor so majestic
Chrysalis only stage three
Still a new beginning no end
On the wind they are respected
For a time beyond our ken
From here to there they are
Ranging both near and far
As a species so grand was named
Windsome monarchs they are....

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The Tiger Swallowtail visits me every day
Kissing each flower, along its way
Fluttering through my yard, in a happy flight
Lifting my spirit with every sight
So delicate, in its freedom to fly
Creating its own dance, on air up high
I stop to watch, every time it passes by
Wishing to be just like the butterfly

Heidi Sands

6/19/20...

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The swallowtail was given the task of breaking the news of a possible disaster to the meadow people.

“Why me?” Swallowtail wondered. There is nothing special about me. She began to plot.

How could she tell them in the easiest way, without hurting feelings?  She began to plan.

How will they take the news? She asked herself.  Where will they go? What will they do?

By the time she figured out how to gently break it to them, the tornado was over....

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The Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly kissed the Lantana
Light its flight carried by the wind lands 'pon my bandana
No nourishment but the butterfly lingers

Gently the Swallowtail flies to land 'pon the Purple Flock
Drinks nectar from the honeyed bloom then touches 'pon windsock  
Off in flight comes once again lands 'pon my fingers

Sponsor: Gail Doyle
Contest: Butterfly Kisses
Rhyming couplets in a form of poulter's measure
With a interlocking tail rhyme...

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Don't call me immigrant
Call me cherry tree
With pink and white cherry blossoms
Don't call me immigrant
Call me sunny butterfly
With swallowtail
Don't call me immigrant
Call me yellowtail snapper
In the cold waters of Florida
Don't call me immigrant
For Pradesh the taxi driver may not come
Pavlov, so well dress, may not open the door
The coffee may not bring vodka nor rum
And your children may not see Tina anymore
Don't call me immigrant
I am just a cloud laden with your rain....

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