posting poetic prose
10 Jan 2025 5 Comments
in free verse Tags: butterfly, eyes, mystery, rainforest, tropical
whooo looks at whooom?
two bugged eyes STARtle
any potential predators,
< pause in puzzlement >
an impressive wing span
( yet So Soft and delicate )
evokes mysterious curiosity
is it bird or butterfly ??
quick flicker of wings…
disappear into shadows
of Palawan RAINforest.
28 Aug 2024 27 Comments
in quatern Tags: butterfly, caterpillar, change, growth, milkweed, monarch, transformation
Linking to W3 “Weave Written Weakly” Prompt #122 here…
witness beauty in life’s changes
butterfly desires milkweed
she explores plant’s veined underside
her oval egg clings to fresh leaf.
little larva hatches from egg
witness beauty in life’s changes
striped larva eats voraciously;
caterpillar expands with growth.
now prepares for its pupa stage
caterpillar hangs down in “J”
witness beauty in life’s changes
asleep as jeweled chrysalis.
chrysalis darkens final day
bright monarch slowly emerges
crumpled wet wings plump up to fly
witness beauty in life’s changes!
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03 May 2019 2 Comments
in tan renga Tags: butterfly, dandelion, dream, summer, sunshine, weed
A tan renga where two poets play (CDHK challenge).
a dandelion
now and then interrupting
the butterfly’s dream
© Chiyo-Ni
more than a moth on a weed—
sunshine’s harmonious muse
© lynn__
photo by lynn
14 Sep 2018 2 Comments
in tan renga Tags: butterfly, dust, milkweed, monarch, traffic, truck
Tan renga “chained together” at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…
between dusty cars
an orange butterfly flits
the traffic rumbles – Kim Russell
truck hauls grain down gravel road
cloud of dust covers milkweed
– lynn
photo by lynn
04 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in haiku Tags: blossoms, butterfly, open, scent, surf, window
See Chèvre’s “fusion” challenge to combine two haiku into one at CDHK:
A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought —
But no, a butterfly.
© Arakida Moritake (Tr. Steven D. Carter)
morning breeze
coming in the window
surf sounds
© Jane Reichhold
an open window–
surf sounds on tropical breeze
butterflies blossom
© lynn__
photo by lynn
30 Aug 2017 6 Comments
in haiku Tags: butterfly, child, father, grasshopper, joy, life
08 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in tanka Tags: butterfly, dandelion, gravel, thistle, weeds
walking gravel road
thistles, dandelions wave
butterfly garden
painted ladies and sulphurs
taste weeds before go to seeds
photo by lynn
26 Aug 2014 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: aging, butterfly, frayed, goodbye, wheelchair
With precious memories of my husband’s mother, Tillie
languid, slowed-down flight
faded tiger swallowtail
wings frayed, summer’s end
aging farmwife rests
memories bound in wheelchair
mind frays as years pass
love sees the beauty
blond boy sings in gramma’s lap
fray with long goodbye
03 Aug 2014 6 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: butterfly, chrysalis, miracle, monarch, worm
– for Leanne
caterpillar worm
eating way thru milkweed leaves
inches slowly on
stops to shed dead skin
hope curls inside dark cocoon
change from inside out
miracle in time
to emerge as butterfly
delicate wings rise
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.”
-from wisdom book of Ecclesiastes 3:11
a poem in my pocket 
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