Butterfly Poems
#butterfly
Butterfly poems, here you'll find poetry about butterflies and metamorphosis. Nature poems about the beauty and life of butterflies, and related symbolism about change, transformation and the cycle of life.
Gahddess_Worship
Poem Published
25th Apr 2025 3:08am
25th Apr 2025 3:08am
Natural Bridges - Scene 2
Walking away from the ocean waves
toward the Ranger’s station
adjacent to a lush eucalyptus grove
descend among the cough-drop-scented trees
scores of Monarch butterflies ethereally float
on the gentle sea breeze
a joyous winged welcoming committee
flit around the heads of human visitors
Inviting the curious strangers
to spend time with them in their warm Winter home
thousands of orange and black striped,
white dotted wings carpet the leaves
and trunks of the trees
resting from their long migration
recouping the energy ...
toward the Ranger’s station
adjacent to a lush eucalyptus grove
descend among the cough-drop-scented trees
scores of Monarch butterflies ethereally float
on the gentle sea breeze
a joyous winged welcoming committee
flit around the heads of human visitors
Inviting the curious strangers
to spend time with them in their warm Winter home
thousands of orange and black striped,
white dotted wings carpet the leaves
and trunks of the trees
resting from their long migration
recouping the energy ...
#butterfly
#happiness
#love
#nature
#trees
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summultima
uma
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Poem Published
13th Apr 2025 6:47pm
13th Apr 2025 6:47pm
~hermaphrodite soul (metaphors will shy now..)
a peacockish hued
papilionid king butterfly
..in wholly full spread
of its majestic wings..
its striking blacks
& red dotted ends
glisten in a winking naughty
a sweeping nacreous magic
postures in an indefinitely
meditative long immersion..
folding its uniting ‘vanakkam’
wings in regularly spaced
reflexive blinking times..
& a conflicting alternate reality
shows up.. when(ever) the wings
fold up.. the nakedness of a seductively
segmented.. a svelte chic...
papilionid king butterfly
..in wholly full spread
of its majestic wings..
its striking blacks
& red dotted ends
glisten in a winking naughty
a sweeping nacreous magic
postures in an indefinitely
meditative long immersion..
folding its uniting ‘vanakkam’
wings in regularly spaced
reflexive blinking times..
& a conflicting alternate reality
shows up.. when(ever) the wings
fold up.. the nakedness of a seductively
segmented.. a svelte chic...
#butterfly
#erotic
#evolution
#sensual
#spiritual
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dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
20th Feb 2025 00:26am
20th Feb 2025 00:26am
don’t know how, or why
saw a butterfly drifting erratically past the window
in early february
and you said that’s not
possible of
course that it might quite well have been late january
but it definitely caught my eye
in early february
and you said that’s not
possible of
course that it might quite well have been late january
but it definitely caught my eye
#butterfly
#winter
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missjem56
Poem Published
11th Feb 2025 3:28pm
11th Feb 2025 3:28pm
Scarlet Butterflies
The sun shines blue
Over purple yellow skies
As jaded streams
Run far, and deep
As nature wears another disguise
For hidden amongst the black foxgloves
Over fields of lavendar orange
Fly scarlet butterflies
Soaring through the misty haze
Where exist my dreams
Where nothing quite seems
As it seems
That's the thing
About scarlet butterfly dreams
by Jemia
Over purple yellow skies
As jaded streams
Run far, and deep
As nature wears another disguise
For hidden amongst the black foxgloves
Over fields of lavendar orange
Fly scarlet butterflies
Soaring through the misty haze
Where exist my dreams
Where nothing quite seems
As it seems
That's the thing
About scarlet butterfly dreams
by Jemia
#beauty
#butterfly
#dreams #surreal
#dreams #surreal
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missjem56
Poem Published
25th Jan 2025 9:38pm
25th Jan 2025 9:38pm
Death Of A Butterfly
Memories of pre-flight meanderings
Living on a diet of jade
The long siesta, whilst encapsulated
Lost in dreams
Whilst awaiting a rebirth
Transformation
An awakening
Into flight
Light linen like wings
Floating on the breezes
FREEDOM!
No longer land-locked
Now fully evolved
And at her finest, and most beautiful
Supping upon natures nectar
My existence, although brief
Is one of awe, and wonder
As i taste the magic
Of my essence
As my wings become wind blown dust
Dissipating into the ether
As...
Living on a diet of jade
The long siesta, whilst encapsulated
Lost in dreams
Whilst awaiting a rebirth
Transformation
An awakening
Into flight
Light linen like wings
Floating on the breezes
FREEDOM!
No longer land-locked
Now fully evolved
And at her finest, and most beautiful
Supping upon natures nectar
My existence, although brief
Is one of awe, and wonder
As i taste the magic
Of my essence
As my wings become wind blown dust
Dissipating into the ether
As...
#beauty
#butterfly
#fate #nature
#fate #nature
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missjem56
Poem Published
4th Jan 2025 11:35am
4th Jan 2025 11:35am
Me Cat. Com!
I know i'm in my sixties now
I'm not in denial of how
(Which means i am!)
Lies, lies, damn lies!!!
I'm actually twenty seven
With the curiousity of a cat
I'm a cat in a hat
With wings of a butterfly
(The cat ate the body, but left the wings!)
Poor butterfly, for goodness sake
That it should be used in a cake
Then end up in my mouth
As if by mistake!
by Jemia
I'm not in denial of how
(Which means i am!)
Lies, lies, damn lies!!!
I'm actually twenty seven
With the curiousity of a cat
I'm a cat in a hat
With wings of a butterfly
(The cat ate the body, but left the wings!)
Poor butterfly, for goodness sake
That it should be used in a cake
Then end up in my mouth
As if by mistake!
by Jemia
#aging
#butterfly
#cats
#funny
#satirical
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missjem56
Poem Published
10th Dec 2024 4:52pm
10th Dec 2024 4:52pm
Rescued By Butterflies
As the fairy lay floundering
Upon the sodden earth
Drowning
Then frowning
Glancing skywards
She witnessed what she thought
Was a swirling rainbow
Which began to hover all around her
As a multitude of butterflies
Of a myriad hues
Began to flap their wings
With such great energy
The fairiys' wings began to dry
And soon was able to fly
Caught within a soft, and silky Zephyr
As she pirouetted skywards
Into the sky, and beyond
Returning to that other place
Where the ethereals reside
by Jemia
Upon the sodden earth
Drowning
Then frowning
Glancing skywards
She witnessed what she thought
Was a swirling rainbow
Which began to hover all around her
As a multitude of butterflies
Of a myriad hues
Began to flap their wings
With such great energy
The fairiys' wings began to dry
And soon was able to fly
Caught within a soft, and silky Zephyr
As she pirouetted skywards
Into the sky, and beyond
Returning to that other place
Where the ethereals reside
by Jemia
#beauty
#butterfly
#dreams
#fairies
#nature
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
7th Dec 2024 8:45pm
7th Dec 2024 8:45pm
From a different perspective
Question about what you think and believe that what you see 👁️👁️ For have you ever seen through the eyes of nature, as it sometimes is a reflection of life, told from a different perspective of a mother and child 🙏 For sure there are some similarity that really reflects, the deepness of the moments of birth, from a WOLF mother's eyes watching over her young child, supporting them and to teach them how to survive 😔 in life. But yet it's here in the nature zone, in the mountains and tree's in the forest life is very different. HERE from the outside...
#animals
#birds
#butterfly
#fish
#motherhood
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missjem56
Poem Published
24th Nov 2024 5:01pm
24th Nov 2024 5:01pm
Butterfly Eyes
My butterfly eyes
Lashes afluttering
Winking in the wind
They close
Like butterfly wings
Folding together
As sails of a yacht
Swaying in the cross breezes
Of the imagination
by Jemia
Lashes afluttering
Winking in the wind
They close
Like butterfly wings
Folding together
As sails of a yacht
Swaying in the cross breezes
Of the imagination
by Jemia
#butterfly
#dreams
#nature #philosophical
#nature #philosophical
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CircleDanceSquared
AlyssaJane96
AlyssaJane96
Poem Published
21st Nov 2024 7:36pm
21st Nov 2024 7:36pm
Flying high on powdered wings
Sing me songs of broken things
Broken bones and broken hearts
I pray we never fall apart
A trap, a cage, a prison cell
Drag me through the gates of hell
But nothing could hold me back for long
I fell in love with your broken songs
Sing me songs of broken things
Broken bones and broken hearts
I pray we never fall apart
A trap, a cage, a prison cell
Drag me through the gates of hell
But nothing could hold me back for long
I fell in love with your broken songs
#butterfly
#love
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James_A_Knight
Poem Published
14th Nov 2024 9:07pm
14th Nov 2024 9:07pm
Mothballs
Cocooned between the rainbow twilight
And the rising moon
The metamorphosis failed
No butterflies emerged
A moth instead
Beautiful in its way
Lover of the dark
Slave to the flame
Death mask upon its wings
The horror
The corporate mothballs
Dropped in the night
They prayed to Uranus
To Gaia
To Cronus
To Zeus
And the rising moon
The metamorphosis failed
No butterflies emerged
A moth instead
Beautiful in its way
Lover of the dark
Slave to the flame
Death mask upon its wings
The horror
The corporate mothballs
Dropped in the night
They prayed to Uranus
To Gaia
To Cronus
To Zeus
#butterfly
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missjem56
Poem Published
31st Oct 2024 9:47pm
31st Oct 2024 9:47pm
Like Paper Flowers
Floating
butterflies
Free,
wingborne
paper
flowers
Haphazard
flyers!
by Jemia
butterflies
Free,
wingborne
paper
flowers
Haphazard
flyers!
by Jemia
#beauty
#butterfly
#flowers #wind
#flowers #wind
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