Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BUTTERFLY PARADE, by EDWIN C. GRABER



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BUTTERFLY PARADE, by                    
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.





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