Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUTTERFLY PARADE, by EDWIN C. GRABER First Line: Butterflies with filmy, fantastic Last Line: Let's decorate day with the color of singing. Subject(s): Wings | ||||||||
Butterflies with filmy, fantastic, fluttery wings Fly from the garden to the edge of the river, Their hearts far happier than the hearts of kings, Their world an active, pulsating quiver. They lead soft colors to merge in the morn, Prodigal spendthrifts of delicate flashes, Matching their green with the growing corn Then off over stubble in a show of flirt dashes. Hues of a pink, and a crimson, and gray, Blue, and a brown, and a red, and a yellow, Maneuvering deftly, a sprightly array For care-scanning eyes in the forenoon's mellow. Flitting and floating, then changing their pace Darting and dashing and soaring and swooping, Spiraling swiftly with ease and grace Over an ant corps laboriously trooping. Oh, time is a flight and a flashy flurry, No one knows this better than butterflies winging, Our lives toward their final bows now hurry -- Let's decorate day with the color of singing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ESTATE SALE: THE SCRABBLE GAME OF A DEAD WOMAN by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT by ELEANOR WILNER THE BIRD IN THE LAUREL'S SONG by ELEANOR WILNER THE LITERAL = THE ABSTRACT: A DEMONSTRATION by ELEANOR WILNER |
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