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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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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