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Author’s note: My husband & I rescued some milkweed plants from a store dumpster and raised some Monarch butterflies from the Monarch caterpillars on them. The metamorphoses was amazing. Hope we did some good for the world. Made me think that butterflies and poets are much alike in their creative process and hence, this poem.
Tiger-striped yellow and black caterpillar,
Voraciously consumes leaves,
Like a poet consumes thoughts…and words,
Preparing for metamorphosis,
Becoming,
A jade pendant chrysalis sparkling with dew,
Golden circle of pinpoint lights circling its apex,
Breathing, forming, living,
Tied by a black and white silk string,
To whatever it can grasp for its journey,
Through time, through space, through the continuum,
Like a poet cocooning,
Grasping in solitary silence to words in flight,
As a structure deconstructs, rebuilds, grows toward light,
From primal memories, life-fluid,
Until,
A bright, ethereal new creation emerges,
Transformed, transcendent, triumphant..
A butterfly…
A poem…
A miracle.
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A lovely poetic expression of God’s beautiful handiwork that can be witnessed by all ~
Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Thank you so much for your kind read and words ADKresident!
Beautiful!
Hello Ethan and I appreciate your kind read and lovely words! Many thanks.
Thank you so much Ethan!
You have such a beautiful way of describing life and it’s strategic forms of development. Love you my Sis!!
I am constantly amazed by it! Nature teaches us so many important things and survival skills are some of the most important ones. I know you feel the same way I do Frankie, and I thank you so much for your love and support!
We both love the beginning of it’s life. Then it moves on as a caterpillar to the point it builds it’s cocoon and in time it is released as the King and Queen of beautiful life. Love you Sis!
Thank you so very much for taking the time to read this poem and leave beautiful words for me my brother. You touch my heart always.