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clawmute
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since 2007-10-01
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Arkansas, USA

0 posted 2007-10-03 11:22 AM


by Frank Lee Jennings


I saw two Butterflies dancing today
a waltz without music or sound
they moved to a melody all their own
swirling and twirling around

Yellow on yellow the Butterfly day
by threes and by twos and by ones
zigzaggedly southward making their way
to lands lying warm in the sun

I'm filled with awe to see them float
with purpose while floating along
to the place where they're going
zigzaggedly so, zigzaggedly dancing along

They dance in October ahead of the cold
ahead of the shortening days
moved by the maker of yellow air wings
by the maker directing their ways

I don't know when the last one flies
dancing along in the sky
a yellow winged dancer sashaying south
on a dance floor a thousand miles wide

I'll think of them when skies are grey
when sleet rattles down through the pines
of the bright yellow dancers
gliding along, dancing the winter behind



KNOWLEDGE IS A DEFENSE AND MONEY IS A DEFENSE, BUT THE EXCELLENCY OF WISDOM IS THAT IT GIVES LIFE TO THEM THAT HAVE IT.

© Copyright 2007 Frank Lee Jennings - All Rights Reserved
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Member Rara Avis
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1 posted 2007-10-03 11:40 PM


Painting a lovely picture with your rhyme.  Joyce
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Member Patricius
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2 posted 2007-10-04 10:31 PM


Lovely poem and I too have been watching the butterflies getting ready to leave. Verey few of them left now so they are all the more noticeable.

Trillium

Betty Lou Hebert

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