Like
a Red Admiral without a fleet,
a Painted Lady out of lippy,
a Large Heath that's been built on,
a Camberwell Beauty in need of a facelift,
a Small Skipper without a rope,
a Purple Emperor sent into exile,
an Orange Tip with a dose of the blues,
an Apollo stuck at Cape Canaveral,
an Adonis Blue that's got out of shape,
a Brimstone without a spark of fire,
a Grayling forced to work in colour,
a Queen of Spain Fritillary under Franco,
a Small Copper with a duff arrest rate,
a Comma without a greengrocer's stall,
a Large Tortoiseshell without an occupant,
a Wall rammed by a stolen car,
a Bath White with chipped enamel,
a Silver-studded Blue with infected piercings,
so am I
without you.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Wild Bill, this is an impressive piece of poetic imagining. It's funny and it's also as touching as you intended. By dint of rich imagining you've made the 'list' technique work perfectly. I've used it a couple of times but never achieved this kind of quality. Excellent. jim