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Butterfly Sijo Poems

These Butterfly Sijo poems are examples of Sijo poems about Butterfly. These are the best examples of Sijo Butterfly poems written by international poets.


Cradling the Cocoon
O' to save the fragile broken heart from shattering to pieces.
When I cup and cradle its flutter held in gossamer cocoon,
its wings shall never cease...

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Categories: butterfly, heart, heartbreak,



Autumn Equinox
A tiny yellow butterfly had descended before me,
Camoflaging with all the fallen golden autumn leaves,
Here in this park where I spend many of my solitary...

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Categories: autumn, butterfly, imagery, insect,

Premium Member That's Close Enough
*Image of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster by Wiki.

That's Close Enough

Shapeshifters, and or, shapeshifting ... preps our world always,
A speck sans a cavass, ......

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Categories: allusion, change, character, identity,

The Dancing Sijo Butterfly
The aching wings of the butterfly did quiver delicately.
How with such immortal beauty do you escape my grasp?
Alas my sordid fingers could never uphold such...

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Categories: animals, fantasy, imagination, introspection,

Gardenstate Parkway
Highway pedals screech as I tread off to saunter near the woods
Gaze lost in spiraling bark, idle with no purpose, blanketed 
The wind brings a...

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Categories: nature



Just Open Me
Lithographed Japanese butterfly frost on the cover
Lime green unlined paper frozen and daring this Indian ink
to seep into her soul, marrying two cultures in word...

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Categories: art, imagination, introspection, on


Book: Shattered Sighs