Butterfly!



Butter-fly! Dear Butterfly!

Your name - bit of butter?
   Makes me wonder….
Ahhh!
    Soft, smooth, silken,
       You add taste and colour -
         To the dreary and dry bread-like
           Landscape of the insect world!

You metamorphosized from your unlikely home,
   Pupa…to butter-fly -
     Sooner rather than later
Was it such an unpleasant stay, within that ugly enclosure?

As you emerged,
You could well have been mistaken
For just another arthropod-
    6 legs
    Wings
 A mere fly of some sort?

Far from it!

Adorned with wings of beauty,
Blessed with the colours of the rainbow:
     A creature so dainty

You float on the wind
And fly at your whim
   Nature’s perfect flying machine!

As you flirt,
From one flower to the next
Drawing nectar -
    Your heavenly manna
Displaying your delicate dance
With such amazing mastery and
Almost human-like artistry!

Mesmerising!
Your enthralled insect audience
The fly, and, the bee and many more insects that be-
View you
      Green with envy;
        In Vain, and,
         Pure disdain!

Finally, you decide to land;
On a tarmac of your choosing-
Your preferred landing strip;
Weary, after one too many flighty trips
In your garden of Eden

And as I gaze forlornly upon you,
I wish I could sprout wings!
And for some moments
Fly off with you!
Sooner rather than later

For your time you bide;
As Nature can be,
Oh so cruel!
   Handing you a 30 day slot
     That is your pre-determined lot!

K P Chandra Copyright Amended Jan 13th 2022

Original Nov29th/30th 2021

About this poem

It was part of an assignment I had to do for a Poetry Course I am doing on-line. On a chosen insect! It is based on my observations of butterflies in my garden!

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Written on January 13, 2022

Submitted by punyachan99 on January 12, 2022

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme a bbxcbdx xaBb xcxxex x fxf xxx xxbxxgf dxfhfgx xxxxc hexhB xfxii j j
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,540
Words 295
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 1, 7, 4, 6, 1, 3, 3, 7, 7, 5, 5, 5, 1, 1

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