Poems About: BUTTERFLY

Butterfly, butterfly, don’t leave me,
The world is very cruel, so stay with me,
I’ll give all that you need, will be a sister and a friend,
Just stay with me and let our friendship extend. read more »

'Butterflies are pretty things,
Prettier than you or I;
See the colors on his wings;
Who would hurt a butterfly?' read more »

Once bee buzzed by the lilting butterfly
tiny wings afire with his speed
aiming for his garden target
rifling along in his usual haste read more »

Love [friendship? ] is but like the wings of a butterfly……….
…………..so fragile, so vulnerable, but actually so significant and unimaginable flexible and strong read more »

Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails, when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream, when winter scowls
and nights compound dark frosts with snow? read more »

Black Black butterfly flitting so
Freely through the warm sky
How you are so misunderstood
And under appreciated read more »

This poem is inspired by the painting ‘The Wounded Butterfly’ by Edward Atkinson Hornel which I saw in the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead. It shows three little girls sitting in the sand dunes and in the palm of the eldest is the wounded butterfly that the girls are sadly looking at. I wrote it from the point of view of the butterfly.

The Wounded Butterfly read more »

Their lives are brief so very brief or so it has been said
And the butterflies you see today tomorrow may be dead
So little time for making love or pleasure to enjoy
An hour to them three years to us they soon grow old and die. read more »

Butterflies delicate, butterflies blue,
Butterflies still remind me of you,
We are here for while,
Then we are gone, but not forgotten. read more »

My story tells of a butterfly
Whose wings are as soft as a cloudy sky
Blue satin wings that thrill my heart
That haunts my soul while we're apart read more »

In my grand baby world she
Dream of pink butterflies and
Angel with golden wings playing
And singing sweet lullabies read more »

I saw last summer a butterfly’s dance.
I adored its softness, perfection,
Its finesse. read more »