So now
As feelings grow
We welcome each new day
We have a new sense of feeling
Alive
We smile at thoughts of the other
For our hearts now feel full
As they now share
Freely
Zorah - Butterfly Cinquain (a merged mirror Cinquain)
Two Cinquains - (5 lines) with one of the two syllable words omitted to make the
body of the butterfly: 2-4-6-8- 2 -8-6-4-2 syllabic line count.
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