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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547700" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Butterfly Poems</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 wing pages of the butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the nursery<br>while people<br>are at purchase<br>and at transactions<br>a blue butterfly<br>comes by<br>and opens its pages to me<br>swift and quick<br>and it says to me: <br>'Read! Read! <br>Read my pages! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I can’t read, '<br>I say, <br>amused<br>at this brash butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Read and write! <br>Read and write<br>about me, <br>and all flitting butterflies<br>Read<br>and write, you silly! '<br>it commands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so I read<br>and I copy<br>and these are the words<br>the words from those<br>pages<br>the butterfly<br>holds up to me</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>2 song of the butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'butterfly<br>butterfly<br>w hy do you fly? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve got wings<br>I’ve got aerodynamics<br>so I flit about<br>and I fly: <br>for I just got to be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O I wish<br>I really wish<br>I too could fly<br>flit and fly<br>fly and flit<br>just like you<br>I wish I could fly'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O you can<br>O you can<br>flit about and fly<br>you mortal on the ground<br>you can fly<br>if you use your mind<br>if you try<br>if you try</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">3 the boy and the butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O butterfly<br>where do you go<br>so busy, so fast<br>moving about in a hurry? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O I move up and down<br>and across and sideways<br>I have to go and go and go<br>little boy<br>just like you jump and run<br>just like you roll and play<br>just as active as you are<br>just being in the joy of me</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>4 the girl and the butterflies</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'O butterflies<br>of all colors<br>butterflies of purple, green<br>and maroon and gold<br>O I love your colors! <br>I love each glow! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we so love<br>the colors of your dresses too<br>little girl; <br>we love the colors in each dress<br>you wear every time<br>you come to see us in the fields<br>and O we do<br>we so love the glow in your cheeks</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">5 butterfly time</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you live a week<br>at most a year<br>dear butterfly...<br>a week<br>a year; <br>and so we too, <br>though we may count in a hundred, <br>are subject to quick passing…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>6 butterfly: a lesson in history</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O butterfly<br>tell me true<br>how did you get<br>your name? <br>Is it true as some say? <br>from your poo? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I’ll tell you how<br>we got the name 'butterfly'...<br>well, in the days of old<br>when no one knew<br>what to call us<br>for we were all nameless then<br>there was a poet<br>who instead of making money<br>just like you<br>deliberated on questions<br>of what shall I call this thingy that<br>flies about? <br>and as he sat at his table<br>wondering of names<br>his indignant wife would throw things at him<br>to get him to work and earn some bread<br>instead of depending on her father’s estate; <br>and she would let things fly at him<br>things like a spoon, knife, wood, <br>clothes – and one day she threw the butter at him<br>and it was then that the penniless poet had inspiration<br>and he shouted: 'Butterfly! '<br>and that’s how we were christened<br>because the witless poet saw some<br>similarity between butter and fly<br>and so we have ever to fly about<br>with this heavy weight of the butter<br>on our delicate wings</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">7 the butterfly hunter</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O hunter<br>butterfly collector<br>let us be<br>We got a life<br>we love to fly<br>and we got family</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O don’t catch us<br>don’t bottle us<br>don’t gas us<br>let us be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we love to fly<br>and we love to bring joy<br>to poets in gardens; <br>we love to bring laughter<br>to children in the fields</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>O please, Collector<br>do not bring death to us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O hunter<br>butterfly collector<br>let us be<br>We got a life<br>we love to fly<br>and we got family</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(above poem based on painting: Der Schmetterlingsjäger (The butterfly hunter) by Carl Spitzweg (1840) , a depiction from the era of butterfly collection) </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>8 names of the butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>the butterfly has a<br>thousand names<br>as many as there are languages<br>and in each even more names: <br>papillon, paruparo, borboleta, mariposa, <br>schmetterling, farfalla, fluture, drugelis, sommerfug, <br>pattampoochi, farasha, prajapathi, <br>thithili, chocho, hu-tieh<br>and so on, names a thousand and more<br>but the silliest name<br>illogical, unimaginative, and most clichéd<br>in all the world<br>is in Plain Jane English: <br>butterfly…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">9 a picnic, some butter, and a fly</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I sat down for a picnic<br>and wondered<br>what I could spread on my bread<br>and soon an idea came by; <br>and so with my left hand<br>I shooed away the fly<br>and with my right<br>spread evenly the butter</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>10 nature of the butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>people say the butterfly is beautiful<br>but if its jerky flight and nervous twitches<br>were made into music<br>it’d sound more a cacophony than a symphony</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>11 a queensland butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">butterfly is in an inapt name<br>for those in the state of Queensland<br>for the they’d melt in the very heat in summer<br>and so, really, since the butterfly’s wings open up like a book<br>I’d rather call it pagefly<br>or an e-readerfly<br>or flutterby or bye-bye or even by-the-by</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>12 the erotic butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>just three butterflies<br>cover my love<br>better than silk or sari</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>13 butterfly and wisteria</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, butterfly<br>you are in your own: <br>you flutter gently<br>and you see the wisteria; <br>and you are in natural rhythm<br>and you will eat, now that the time<br>and place are right</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>14 be you makers of beauty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'maybe a few words, '<br>I ask of the butterfly<br>that is resting on radiant leaves<br>and the butterfly says: <br>'Be you makers of beauty…'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Raj+Arumugam">Raj Arumugam</a><div class=q>
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at the nursery
while people
are at purchase
and at transactions
a blue butterfly
comes by
and opens its pages to me
swift and quick
and it says to me: 
'Read! Read! 
Read my pages! '


'I can’t read, '
I say, 
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