Tag Archives: Butterfly

Tattered Moth [Haiku]

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a moth, wings tattered,
 basks in the canopy-
  breaching spotlight.

Dueling Colorful [Haiku]

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Butterfly shows off
 its luminous blue wings
 to hot pink flowers.

Choosy [Haiku]

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a butterfly flits
 over blooms: a connoisseur
 not deigning to land.

Butterfly Dogfight [Haiku]

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butterflies 
 in spastic jinky orbit:
  play or bloom combat?

Translucent [Haiku]

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sunlight shines
 through the butterfly's wing:
  yet, it seems sluggish.

So Many Eyes [Haiku]

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one butterfly:
 with so many eyes 
  that cannot see.

Twins, Or: Spastic Gravity [Haiku]

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twin butterflies 
 spiral around each other
  with spastic gravity.

Evening Brown #2 [Haiku]

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at dusk,
 the long-still Evening Brown
  flutters off.

Evening Brown [Haiku]

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this Evening Brown 
 is well-named; it’s sluggish 
  in the morning.

Bent Blade [Haiku]

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a skipper sits on
 a bent grass blade; then leaves.
  the blade stays bent.