What's Dead is Dead
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After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales ads in the local newspaper, donned our socks and sandal,...
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Categories:
viceroys, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Butterflies
...They slip in unnoticed
just below the burning rays of the sun solstice
lighting on the last flowers of summer bare,
sweet nectar wafting in the heavy laden air,
colors brilliant, glowing, c...
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Categories:
viceroys, butterfly, nature,
Form: Rhyme
For Those Who Have Considered Suicide When Who They Are Is Not Enough
...For the days when your skin feels inadequate
And you want to escape from it
When you've scrutinized every fiber of your being & want to trade in your reflection
When you don't look right juxtapose...
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Categories:
viceroys, courage, depression, love, power,
Form: I do not know?
Illusive Stripes
...Wafting on winds many miles from home.
Hovering together splashes of black and white.
A Zebra Longwing colony home from the day’s roam,
Oh, how happy I was to see that old familiar sight.
Monar...
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Categories:
viceroys, animals, mystery, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Abiding Beauty
...Abiding Beauty
By Dane Smith-Jonsen
Above the fern at the forest's edge, a butterfly gracefully glides.
Beautiful yellow flittering near tastes the sugary buttercup.
Flashing sulphur wings...
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Categories:
viceroys, naturebeauty, beauty, passion,
Form: Quatrain