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Understanding Butterflies
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Understanding Butterflies |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Understanding butterflies One things for certain you don't have to tell a butterfly how or when or why to fly. They have no particular reason for what they do. They just spread their beautiful wings without a goodbye and before you know it they're soaring high in the sky. Another certainity. Someone that doesn't want to be with you is not sticking around no matter how you beg, steal or lie. No matter how hard you try. No matter how much you cry. Blink your eyes and kiss them goodbye. They'll be gone, long gone before you open your eyes. The best you can do is let them go wherever they want to go. The sooner they get on their way the sooner you can find one who might want to stay. All I can say is fly butterfly. And someday perhaps I'll understand butterflies. And until that day I will not try to understand why I had to say goodbye to my beautiful silky butterfly. Jameslee@January08,2001 Flyinpeace. |
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Breathe~ Member
since 2000-02-05
Posts 315Washington... |
May your next butterfly... not be a flutterby... This one misted my vision...a little...  Very tender... I love the time and in between the calm inside me in the space where I can breathe... Sarah McLachlan |
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KokoStewartKoomoa Senior Member
since 2000-12-04
Posts 580Waikiki, Hawaii |
James ,I can llok back at poems that my love wrote me and things he said and promised and now know that my butterfly has also flown. The tradgedy of it is that the love is bittersweet and hurts cause it was truly meant by me and is still felt with agony.It also leaves one with a sense of "What's wrong with me?" when nothing is wrong with you or with I. I can only hope to go forward and that time will heal. I so empathsize with you right now. I wish there were something to relieve it. take care, friend...aloha! Passion,imagination and intellect running together... Poetry in motion~~~ Aloha with warmest regards, Koko |
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Sunnyone Member Ascendant
since 2000-07-06
Posts 5334Staffordshire, England |
Butterflies are beautiful creatures that cannot be held down without damage......they are ours to watch and cherish, and they will come to us to land on our sleeves and touch our hearts, and share their freedom with us! This is a wonderful, and heartaching write, my friend......it shows me that there are those who love enough to let go!!  Write on! -<--<--{(@ |
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tracie66 Member Elite
since 2000-01-18
Posts 4713Australia |
James~ Hard as it may be you've done the right thing ~HUGS~ Tracie~ P.S Lovely write Love is the life of the soul... It is the harmony of the universe |
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Nate Dogg Senior Member
since 1999-11-15
Posts 1658Georgia, Fulton |
James, this a beautiful, soft, sad, and delicate piece...fabulous write! Nathan |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
A butterfly isnt what you need my friend...sure they are beautiful and whimsical and they capture our imagination...but as you say...they flit off without a thought for you or I...love this one James |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
James~ letting go gracefully..........I bet you hold on even better  Beautiful poem dear man. -SEA |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
James, This butterfly thanks you for letting go, so gracefully, of your butterfly. May the next not be a flutterby,but alight on your heart and stay. write on Kethry Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Thank you Breathe, Koko, Sunnyone, tracie, Nate, Paula, Sea and Kethry for the beautiful responses....I appreciate them...James |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
yeah...sigh |
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