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A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

Cover image for post A Broken Butterfly, by TeaRise

TeaRise in Poetry & Free Verse

• 77 reads

A Broken Butterfly

I fly like a butterfly

softly fluttering

past you, unnoticed.

(please notice me)

I fly like a butterfly

gliding smoothly

past life.

(a life I want to stop flying through).

I fly like a butterfly

only seen in warmth.

(little do you know, I soar in coldness more).

I fly like a butterfly

through beauty

but sometimes the heat is heavy

and I start drifting

down.

(please save me from the ground).

I fly like a butterfly

but a butterflies wings

are fragile,

and so

I fall like a butterfly

unable to beat

my torn heart.

(why couldn’t you see me?)

(why couldn’t you see the tears?)

I was a broken butterfly begging for you to help (but you let me fall).

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

OceanOfStorms in Poetry & Free Verse

• 95 reads

Life flutters slowly

the last of the group

golden sun dipping

behind the horizon

cold seeping in

slow creeping death

wings too heavy to fly

land for one final breath

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

Mazzmyrrheyes in Poetry & Free Verse

• 105 reads

Winged Garden of Grace (r/p)

With black bodice features

She burrows through peat

Amidst humble creatures

Oft’ crushed beneath feet

She’ll become a winged garden

Eyes, blind to behold

Her future, yet hidden

Daydreams to unfold

Tears fall from Grace

Feast of leaves, her last bite

Spring winds wipe her face

While she spins her silk kite

She places her life

Into Destiny’s hands

Without fighting or strife

Trusts her creator’s plan

Grace falls to sleep

Charis’ chrysalis tomb

Slow to gold dust, she seeps;

Born of wings, waxed en womb

Sun wakes her, unshelled

Stunning brilliance of light

Grace falls, unveiled

To her garden in flight

Gold rays ’luminate

Woven colors, divine

Nectar dreams, she creates

Sugar sips from the vine

Grace falls on me

Flutters hope, soul aloft

When her beauty I see

Whilst her former self’s lost

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

Cover image for post There's a time to be re-born & a time to die, by JimLamb

JimLamb in Poetry & Free Verse

• 76 reads

There’s a time to be re-born & a time to die

She put on

the butterfly earrings

he gave her

after he apologized

for the slap

at K-mart.

She put on

the butterfly necklace

he gave her

after he apologized

for kicking her

at the bar.

She put on

the butterfly broach

he gave her

after punching her

in front of

the kids.

As he slept

that night,

she shoved an ice-pick

into the base

of his skull—

then called 9-1-1.

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

PastelAngel in Poetry & Free Verse

• 102 reads

The beat of a butterfly’s wings...

They say the beat

Of a butterfly’s wings

Can create a hurricane

Far

Oh so far

Down the line

I’m scared

Of having

So much power

Of all the potential

My fragile wings

Possess

Can I stay

Warm and wrapped

Inside my dark cacoon?

Just an ornament

A chrysalis

Upon a dainty leaf?

I wait and muse

Will I smother?

Am I alive?

Or am I dead?

Inside my blessed prison

Do I truly exist?

I choke

I fight

I want to breathe

I emerge into the world

I am born

And so are the possibilities

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

Thereisnospoon in Poetry & Free Verse

• 79 reads

The butterfly effect.

One day somewhere out there, a butterfly flapped its wings,

flying into the path of a puppy, who chased it round and round in rings.

The puppy untrained and full of joy, jumped right onto a busy highway,

the speeding cars had no time to react, but one swerved quickly anyway.

The lady driving the red Toyota, was beautiful, carrying her first child,

when the surgeon held her dying hand, he saw a soul at peace and mild.

The surgeon carried the guilt, driven mad he wandered the streets,

he muttered words incomprehensible, to whomever he should meet.

When the officers found his dead body, they just couldn't understand,

why a note with a butterfly picture, was found clutched in the surgeon's hand.

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

alex6 in Poetry & Free Verse

• 98 reads

butterflies

I used to feel butterflies flutter whenever you came near.

Now, every time I remember I'll never see you again, they struggle to escape.

Are they trying to reach you?

Or are they just as desperate to leave me as you were?

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

ColdRamen in Poetry & Free Verse

• 75 reads

Why’d they have to laugh

You’ll laugh,

I tell you

You’ll laugh

No one ever doesn’t laugh

They all find it funny

But it doesn’t make me laugh

I say they scare me

But no one understands

They say it’s harmless

But I don’t care

The way it flutters

In patterns unknown

Its delicate wings

Haunting my eyes

I want to run

I want to hide

They’ll laugh,

I know

They’ll laugh

Sometimes I run

Sometimes I hide

Then

They laugh,

I tell you

They laugh

It isn’t funny

I say

I’ve tried

But I just can’t get over my fear of butterflies

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

HandsOfFire in Poetry & Free Verse

• 41 reads

your butterfly

smile at me

i'm not your butterfly

screen on blink

but no time to reply

foot floor tap

time on standby

speech all fillers

no use to deny

waiting by the door

for those words to fly

waste of my time

don't need to tell you why

don't smile at me

i'm not your butterfly

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Butterflies

A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).

kittykt1119 in Poetry & Free Verse

• 55 reads

Butterfly

If I had to compare you to anything, it would be a butterfly. You’re beautiful, graceful, elegant, and I can't keep you because you are free.

You flew into my life and I've been chasing after your color ever since. I have you but for how long? Will you break my heart like so many people have before? Flying away and never returning?

I guess I will just have to hold on to you a little longer.

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