Butterfly Tanka Poems

Floating, fluttering playing among the flowers,
A butterfly... I wonder if it's the butterfly or my Fu.
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Catch joy when you can
Like a butterfly twirling away
And keep near the heart.
If not, joy will escape your grip too
And fly by somebody else's head....

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butterflies hover
because they can't crawl ~ but one
was trying to crawl
but it did not let it crawl
not let a butterfly crawl

what monstrosity
to let a fragile...

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Smiles on all faces
when roaming green, green spaces.
Mauve populations
and redbird expectations
thrill in butterfly nations!

Color imposes
Wild horses and red roses.
Singing lilac breeze
greets yon heather honeybees
and purple...

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romantic reading
thank you sweet neat poetess
so sweet aroma
rosy optimistic feel
harmony with your own taste

Your friendly so nice butterfly romantic message in April month.
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A Butterfly Dream

Once I dreamt I was 
a butterfly fluttering
aloft in the air
or was the butterfly me
metamorphosed in a dream.
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Harmony of three:
See three dancing butterflies,
Flutter before me.
Happily, I see with eyes,
Being filled with awe and glee....

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FLUTTERING

Into warm Spring air
The butterfly emerges
Wings spread wide to dry

Colours flash in the sunshine
Bringing beauty to us all...

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Autumn is golden
mirrored in still glinting lake
Sunbeams through plum trees
Nature's so long symphony
when birds soar in sympathy

Tiffany skies chills
pink robin is still singing
to an empty...

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Air wafts with spring scent
Petals burst colors of buds
Robe of dew drapes grass
I feel joy free from frost freeze
Lie on lured butterfly wings.

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A time of tulips
Pink cherry blossom thrills too
Refreshing rains roar 
In age of red butterflies
Looking to deep golden hours


Written on 3/29/2023
For: March Into April -...

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cranial cocoon
caterpillar compromise
butterfly escape
perseverance frames our time
the mind's eye unlocks freedom....

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Exhilaration!
Feet pounding windswept pavements
people thrilled to run.
Red butterflies in tandem-
Invigorated heartbeats.

Day to satin night
on every viable route
energetic youth!
Pretty, fleeting scenery
like rosy days going by....

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Running with the breeze
Gray cat and blue butterflies
Orange sunset skies
Zest meets curiosity
just to hear the ocean roar

Evening melodies
drift far on the floral air
as time slips...

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could not sleep at night 
thrilled to wake and play around 
in and out of rooms
as though gems hidden and found
nights merriment resurrected
smiles laughs howls...

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