What Beauty Overlooked!



The birds within the open sky
soar gracefully like the butterfly.
She flutters around to feel the air,
then rest her wings on flowers fair.
Trees dance with the wind’s song;
a mourning weep, never lasting long.
The butterfly sails again,
soaring towards heavens to the never end.
Scarcely touching sand on shore,
an ocean reaches desperately for more.
Butterfly, she glides to land
upon a soft hill of sand.
Through the wind, beneath the clouds,
the sun bleeds horizon, quiet and proud.
Flittering off towards the dying sun,
her daily journeys never done.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABBCCDEFFGGHIJJ
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 542
Words 94
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

Carrie Watson

I'm a mother to a beautiful 7 year old son, engaged to a charming 31 year old man, and owner of a zoo of animals that we've rescued. I am currently in school for Nursing to get my BSN, while minoring in Music Performance [piano] at Alverno College. more…

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