Michael Shepherd Butterfly Poems

As butterflies with beauty grace the air,
so love cannot be lazy in its love;
true love brings lovely energies to bear;
love's actions grace the true contemplative.
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Perhaps it had arrived undercover
between the rich dark green leaves
of the organic cabbage which from
the huge holes in its tough outer leaves
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Glance, as you hurry home from work,
through this lighted window where
a man taps at his computer
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