Where do the butterflies go?
Teardrops of dews glistening
Breaks the days of dawn
Caterpillars shedding shells of the cocoon
Awakening with yawn
The little fairies quaintly appear
Dancing their favorite dances all the day long
But where do the butterflies dance to
When the sun hides her head...
And the days are shamelessly gone?
They fill up my gardens
Frolic from tip of tulip to end of the rose
Next to sunflower, daffodil the flutter flies flown
Never attempting to speak even one little peep
Keeping their precious secrets
From sun up til’ sundown
A parade of floats
Viceroy to the Monarch whom he tries to pretend
Royal and regal, ginger and black
Passes the hours while waltzing with flowers
But where does each of them go as processions end?
Dainty, the Painted lady curtseys
Among the swallowtails that swan through the weed
And the Admirals through the blade
But soon to hide away
Flying rainbows of season’s beginning to fade
And my magical gardens now they are bare
The little fairies all have disappeared
Following the whisper of wisps of a new winter’s air
It’s the beginning of autumn
And soon will come the billows of snow
Did they journey off to a forever summers land
Where oh, where did the butterflies go?
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,177 |
Words | 210 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 6, 5, 5, 3, 4 |
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