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Great Mormon [Haiku]

Posted on September 17, 2025 by B Gourley

Great Mormon Butterfly [Papilio Memnon]

Great Mormon
 flaps its wings spastically,
  yet hovers in place.

3 thoughts on “Great Mormon [Haiku]”

Aaron Guile on September 17, 2025 at 9:55 pm said:

So I’m a Latter-day Saint and I’ve never heard of the Mormon butterfly (Papilio polytes). I think I’m OK with both the idea of a Latter-day Saint and a butterfly in this poem—a type of dualism. It’s very intriguing.

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- B Gourley on September 18, 2025 at 6:42 am said:
  
  I don’t know anything of the name origin of the butterfly, but -oddly enough- while it’s widespread across Asia, I don’t think it’s present in North America (unlike the Latter-day Saint variety of Mormon.)
  
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  - Aaron Guile on September 18, 2025 at 6:44 am said:
    
    Gotcha. NP. It is an interesting poem regardless.
    
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