Leaf
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Viceroy butterfly, remarkable
dead ringer for the Monarch
eggs overwinter, a rolled-up leaf
displaying their mother's motif
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Categories:
viceroy, 11th grade, butterfly,
Form: Verse
Prophecy of the Golden Child
...Gaia in white flame burns
Yaldabaoth himself spurns
A second cycle turns
The Golden Age returns
The first-begotten son
Comes down from heaven’s sun
Barbelo, Armoured Queen
Look gently at thi...
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Categories:
viceroy, celebration, change, child, christian,
Form: Musaddas
butterfly messengers
...from above a hum, a gentle pop and they appear out of thin air
large as Right whales out of the sky they pour in like colorful dreams
gliding down on papered metal wings, the airborne clan desce...
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Categories:
viceroy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Cry of Dolores
...A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdina...
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Categories:
viceroy, cinco de mayo, cry,
Form: Rhyme
The Tribute
...Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from their sempiternal dreams of a free lan...
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Categories:
viceroy, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Keepers of the Flowers
...The keepers of the flowers’ secrets arrive in their season
Monarch, viceroy, red-spotted purples, given a good reason.
They bring fantasy and delight to the lilacs and bleeding heart.
Keeping thei...
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Categories:
viceroy, butterfly, flower,
Form: Rhyme
The Poisoned Bottle
...The Wuhan experiment concealed,
The cunning crafts devised,
Myriad of ignorant mass their targets,
An agenda unmasked,
Polluted atmosphere
Forged idea of a prepared viceroy.
"Mask up"
"Six f...
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Categories:
viceroy, anxiety, bullying, change, corruption,
Form: Narrative
Subtle Socialism
..."A man convinced against his own will, is of the same opinion still".
It used to be
two opinions
two paths
two ideologies
Two Choices
Day and Night,
Men and women,
Boys a...
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Categories:
viceroy, abuse, anger, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Blood and Sweat
...The tirade of the tyrant
Has subdued the trident
Gloating over the viceroy
It's the blood and sweat of
victory.
The subdued voice of defeat
Veiled in unapologetic defiance
Shedding secr...
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Categories:
viceroy, anxiety, character, dark,
Form: Elegy
The Stage
...A godless mass afraid of Death,
though unfettered by rebellion against God.
Uneasy calm imposed by modern gadgets,
global alarm from nations once revered,
A surge of pestilence from the east
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Categories:
viceroy, anxiety, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Ballad
An Age For Butterflies
...Summer crept in
slow, steady steps within,
dogged pacing of hot and humid days
mixed messages of spring slipping away
and summer waiting to climb
patient on the edges of space and time;
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Categories:
viceroy, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, color,
Form: Carpe Diem
Time
...Time
Thou mighty monarch of “eartherial” scope,
the vicegerent and the viceroy of all fickle frame.
from thy womb lonesome vial sprung,
and the cavalcades of torrents bearing branches
T...
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Categories:
viceroy, change, destiny, earth, journey,
Form: Lyric
Reform
...My wheels on the gravel spin around with wholesome timidity, forthwith
No hesitation among the five solitaires surrounding me like a myth,
I’d made up my mind to commence with resumption of self,
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Categories:
viceroy, grief,
Form: Free verse
Viceroy Butterfly
...a frail beauty floats
atop a common milkweed
viceroy butterfly
Date written: 08/21/2019...
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Categories:
viceroy, beauty, butterfly, insect, nature,
Form: Haiku
Winter Love
...Winter is both beautiful and dangerous
Islands of snow caress the countryside
Nice friends that you see from day to day
Teachers of nature careful and silent
Every person dressed with sty...
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Categories:
viceroy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Acrostic
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