For dVerse Poets Pub where Merril is our host.
The topic is : Choose at least three of the names from the list below and include them in your poem. You may choose to use more than three for your poem. Please use the entire name, that is use “Appalachian azure”, not just Appalachian or azure.
Appalachian azure
Autumn leaf
Clipper
Clouded yellow
Crimson Patch
Duke of Burgundy
Fatal Metalmark
Fiery skipper
Gatekeeper
Golden birdwing
Golden Hairstreak
Green marble
Large Tortoiseshell
Lustrous copper
Miami BlueMonarch
Mourning Cloak
Orange Sulphur
Painted Lady
Peacock
Pine Satyr
Rice paper
Rusty-tipped page
Silver Emperor
Silver-banded Hairstreak
Small Wood nymph
Sonoran Blue
Speckled wood
Spring white
Velvet rose
Wandering skipper
Poetics: But no, a butterfly
Messengers
A Monarch rested where sorrow had been sitting, as if grief itself had grown delicate wings.
A Painted Lady drifted through morning light, asking nothing except that I notice.
Then came the Mourning Cloak, dark as remembered tears, yet carrying the promise that endings are only another shape of becoming.
Since then, I never call them ordinary butterflies.
Some arrive with colours.
Others arrive with answers.
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