Sure mariposa is a lovely word,
and psyche packs provocative surprise,
but I declare the English name’s absurd
that calls fantastic insects butterflies.
How do we from the dairy designate
a creature so refined it sips the bloom
and flits on air in faerie featherweight?
What message from that name should we assume?
It’s made of wings like petals in the air.
Butterflies in poetic motion! ~ Bette A. Stevens
~Poem by Bette A. Stevens © January 1, 2013~
I collected word nuggets for The Ice Crystal Robe several years ago. Last week I shot the photograph for this post when one of our lilac trees was shimmering like a gemstone in winter’s early morning sunlight after a storm. ~Bette A. Stevens~
The Ice Crystal Robe
Royal Finery,
glistening diamond ropes
embellish bare arms.
Her ice crystal robe
disappears by mid-morning.
Lilac stands naked.
Kathy's niece took these pictures of boomers the other night west of Edmonton. Kathy and I talked about what we saw in the clouds. There is a lot in there and yesterday, as I walked, I understood clouds meaning something different during different seasons of life.
The spring of childhood,
Clouds were homes
Where
My imagined friends
Came to life…
A touch of impromptu catnip from a morning drive. . .
oh tree of burnished gold
your leaves shalt not wither
before illuminating my soul
~catnipoflife
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
~George Eliot
English: tangram (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too! | Book Club Reading List.
First, get a cow.
Why a cow, you ask? Well, it could be a chicken, I suppose, or even a dog. A few deer could wander through. But a poem, especially a first poem, can definitely use the sturdy architecture and sweet domesticity of a cow to build itself around. You can lean against a cow. She won’t run away unexpectedly.
Here sits a beautiful spot along the Maine coast
This section of beach is very well-known
I don't even live here and listen to me boast
Usually you will never see a person here all alone
There are people walking hand in hand
Children darting in and out of the waves
So far I have not seen much damage to this beaches land…
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on Feb 25, 2013