<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=579128" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wounded Butterfly</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This poem is inspired by the painting ‘The Wounded Butterfly’ by Edward Atkinson Hornel which I saw in the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead. It shows three little girls sitting in the sand dunes and in the palm of the eldest is the wounded butterfly that the girls are sadly looking at. I wrote it from the point of view of the butterfly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Wounded Butterfly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The waves whisper against the shifting sands, <br>And gentle breezes breathe the softest sounds, <br>Your sorrow falls into your open hand<br>As I, forever now, am on the ground.<br>Without a care I lived my thoughtless life, <br>Alighting on one precious flower then gone, <br>Not knowing of the human world of strife, <br>Not knowing that my freedom would be done.<br>You children of the world of sound and light<br>Who live for more than just one paltry day, <br>I hope you’ll never suffer my sad plight, <br>Let no one hold your yearning wings at bay; <br>Soar high, high up into the waiting sun<br>Be free to laugh and love and swiftly run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oct 2005</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lesley+Diane+Sutherland">Lesley Diane Sutherland</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=579128" data-title="The Wounded Butterfly de Lesley Diane Sutherland" data-description="This poem is inspired by the painting ‘The Wounded Butterfly’ by Edward Atkinson Hornel which I saw in the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead. It shows three little girls sitting in the sand dunes and in the palm of the eldest is the wounded..."></div> </div> </div>

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