the butterfly
in the cool morning air
can’t flee foot thunder
Butterfly Paralysis [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: Butterfly
Grass Yellow Butterfly [Tanka]
the Grass-Yellow finds a place in the dry leaves where its green tint is more ornamental than it is camouflage
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Fleeting Blue [Haiku]
a splotch of blue catches my eye, i look and it flits away
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DAILY PHOTO: Silver-Washed Fritillary, Kaindy Lake in Kazakhstan
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Vulnerable Moment [Haiku]
warmed in morning sun - the butterfly slowly unfolds, briefly helpless
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Erratic [Haiku]
the butterfly
flies no straight lines, but
still finds the flower
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Swallowtail [Kyōka]
a swallowtail lands; crashed into by another, it doesn't flinch; ten feet away, I lean in and it flutters away
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Butterfly Paralysis [Haibun]
Struggling to wiggle its wings, the butterfly warms in the morning sun. Is it like sleep paralysis - that hypnopompic impulse to flee that's stymied by stuck muscles? What's a wind gust or rapidly advancing shadow like for the butterfly? Normally, such occurrences would provoke an erratic fluttering away. But now the screaming instinct to wing away can't be answered. Does the butterfly know dread, or does it just quietly await the moment it's unfrozen? cool morning - a butterfly twitches, but can't yet fly
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DAILY PHOTO: Butterfly & Blossoms
DAILY PHOTO: Posing Butterfly
Taken in the summer of 2019 in Kazakhstan.
the !n(tro)verted yogi 