The Butterfly



I watch as the butterfly emerges from her slumber
The life before she can no longer remember
Unfurling her wings in the midday sun
For the butterfly her journey has just begun
As she flutters her wings I smile and think that it won't be long
A gentle breeze and she will be gone
With each tentative beat of her wings her new life calls
The leaf no longer an island to the beauty in store
A breath of wind the time is right
As I watch her wings dance out of sight
Life is so much more than what we perceive
We too are like the butterfly
If only we would believe
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABBCDEFGGHIH
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 548
Words 113
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

Nigel Basher

Reflections On Life. A personal journey in poetry through; love, sorrow, pain, hope and joy.Thank you to Lulu Poetry for making me editors choice so many times and for enabling the majority of my poetry to be published.Namely within the International who's who of poetry twice and within many other poetry books and publications.Above all. I would like to thank those fellow poets that have posted such honest and inspiring reviews.I hope that you too receive such recognition and more with your poetry.It's always humbling and inspiring to know that my simple poetry brings joy, hope, reflection and positive insight to another. more…

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