“Beautiful Butterfly”

I saw you fluttering about
one day
prismatic vibrancy
I thought
the way the sun got caught
in your colors that way
as you fluttered about
that day

white flowers seeming to be
your nectar of delight

appropriately so
as your own beauty starkly framed
against the silken breath of cloud
that captured your attention
suspended for a moment

captured in my mind
until you fluttered off again
to find another moment
like this

I chased you that day
capturing your moments
making them my own

until you were gone

~*~
2/18/07

This was written for a poetry challenge to write a poem inspired by the beauty of a butterfly.

I was awarded Honorable Mention for this poem!
This poem won Honorable Mention
in WOSIB's Literary Garden's
Feb '07 Poetry Challenge.

Copyright © 1997 Brenda Barnhart. All Rights Reserved.
* Back to My Poetry *

Back to Top

Thought provoking things to inspire & uplift you...

“prismatic vibrancy
I thought,
the way the sun got caught
in your colors that way

Brenda Barnhart