BUTTERFLY
Flittering fluttering
Flutter by butterfly
Borne on the breezes
By wavering wings
Sweeping and soaring
On sultry-sun days.
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Wrote this sitting in a sun-drenched garden a couple of days ago while relaxing on a lounger with a .....gin and tonic. Another aquilegia - pink one this time but couldn't get a photo of it with a butterfly - they kept flitterin' and flutterin'.
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They are beautiful to watch while I sit in the garden drinking my Rioja.
Being enclosed by high walls our garden doesn't see too much bird life but we get loads of butterflies - I have already this year seen over half a dozen types from the early brimstones through the whites and browns to an orange tip which I spotted yesterday. And there are so many more to come later in the year.
A fine write and pic M. Ohh and there was I, battling through heavy rain, getting sodden, but 'snail-saving', helping them on to the grass. Well, it takes them a long time to cross the path!
Grr - I hate slugs and snails - I attack them with a bolas - but it doesn't work - any suggestions?
I dunno, I only rescue them, as they walk across paths on damp days! They can't get a sprint going, so I save them before the dreaded crunch of a boot coming down on them. Either that or fit them with a rocket engine! They would go 10,000mph!
They can move fast - I was overtaken by one the other day - could it have been fitted with an outboard? It was very wet at the time.
Thanks for a fine SEXTET Micheal ~ full of flutter & flow ! Love the AQUILEGIA ~ Yes the butterflies are out in Mum's Garden ~ difficult to photograph with OPEN WINGS ~ BRIAN !
Thanks Brian - difficult indeed.
A butterfly so symbolic of hot beautiful sunny days.
A sweet, vivid and charming poem!
Thank you Michael!
Keep writing
FineB
TtHANKS FINEB - I TRIED TO CAPTURE THE WAY THEY DANCE ACROSS THE GARDEN - A REAL PLEASURE TO WATCH. OOPS GONE ALL CAPITALS !!
Very good poem. I love it.
thanks for your kind comment Alex
You seen flutterby's?! Only after too much to drink?!
I've fleen them suttering all lay dong - yow about hou?
Lovely to watch aren't they. I think you do catch their flitting flight well in your piece. Earlier this year i included the sound of a butterfly's beating wings in a poem, i described it as sounding like 'pulsing fluff'.
Oddly, a lady i met recently was terrified of butterflies to the point of running away screaming. It takes all kinds i suppose.
I think of them as one of the most beautiful of all creations and the peace they bring to our countryside when one is immersed in it is quite tangible.
Thanks for making mme think butterfly.
Love the term 'pulsing fluff' - how can anyone be terrified of them? Mind you if you put different wings on them they become just another ordinary bug.
Really appreciate your comments - thanks dusk.
I love butterflies. So delicately beautiful. God sighs and butterflies break free from their chrysalis and grace us with their beauty. Hard to believe they're just beautiful insects. The 'flittering and fluttering' does sound like butterfly wings, but I do also like dusks' 'pulsing fluff'. You guys are great!
Thanks so much SLR - I did attempt to capture their scurrying through the air aided by quite a bit of alliteration,
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