Photography by Marianne Dessis … Music, Smoldering, by Kai Engel
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“ Butterfly, Butterfly ”
– fluttering bye –
Butterfly, butterfly
Leisurely floating
Dressing the sky,
Fitfully dancing
Shifted by currents
In breezes on high,
Ever so pleasing
You thus advent
Gently trapezing,
Yet softly you fly…
Butterfly, butterfly
Fluttering bye
Your beauty defies,
Wonder exemplified
On wings so grand,
And of such splendour
To make rainbows pale,
In light of your colours…
Butterfly, butterfly
When summer is low
Too soon you must go,
So where will you fly
To bring life elsewhere,
That offers but sorrow
When you leave our sky,
Butterfly, butterfly
Alas but oh why,
Must your beauty then die!
written in Grasse, Fr. July 18, 2005
edited in Sweetsburg, Ca. May 31, 2020
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
A Butterfly ode to they who diligently
work to prevent the extinction of
fellow creature, the Lepidoptera…
Poetry on a Canapé 