Please … Just For One Day

Butterfly fluttering
Impossible to hear
the delicate beauty
of the moment

But senses are touched
by the gentleness
of the vision

The imagination captured
and carried away
on those wings

Scattered thoughts
up in the air
bouncing from one flower
to another

Stopping but for a moment
before moving on
How freeing to not linger!

No time given to dwell
on tasks that bind us to reality
Released from duties
and obligations
weighing heavily

Oh please,
just for one day,
let me be a butterfly


Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing
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24 thoughts on “Please … Just For One Day”

1. This is beautiful, Christine!

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   1. Thanks Lucy ☺️

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2. Flutter by, Butterfly! Well done.

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   1. Thanks Ron ☺️

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3. This is a liberating idea! Flitting from flower to flower without any other thought.

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   1. Thanks Sadje. Seeing as butterflies only live such short lives they really son’t have too much to worry about! We have a long lifetime of stuff to carry around and it can get heavy 😦🤣🤣🌺❤️

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      1. You’re welcome! You’re exactly on spot.

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4. Oh, just one day to feel that free! Lovely!

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   1. Thanks so much. I need that freedom right now Susi ☺️

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      1. I hope that for you, Christine. We all need that ease. ((hugs))

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      2. Thanks Susi. That means a lot to me. Yes, we all need that sometimes 😕❤️

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      3. You’re welcome, Christine! Definitely. 🙂 ❤

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5. this beautiful christine, every part of it, great sounds, very well written

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   1. Thank you very much Phillip ☺️ I’m happy you liked it!

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6. I could feel the journey of the butterfly bouncing from one flower to another! Writing this is multiple short stanzas really added to that feel of light-hearted fluttering. Beautiful! 🌺🦋🌺

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7. Oh please,
   just for one day,
   let me be a butterfly

   Very apt and a great close Christine! One immediately hears laments of those dragged down to inactivity, the lockdown impacting everyone. Yes, when will it be back to normal?

   Hank

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8. Nicely composed. Makes me think of the line “…and butterflies are free to fly..” from Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”

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9. Oh my heart this is absolutely beautiful, Christine! I am especially moved by; “No time given to dwell on tasks that bind us to reality/Released from duties and obligations
   weighing heavily,”… yes.. let us be butterflies! 💝💝

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10. Beautiful, Christine! Maybe butterflies only get one day, but what a day it is!

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    1. Thanks so much Ingrid ☺️🌺. I thought it was two days!!! Oh one is even better ☺️👍

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11. Butterflies and dragonflies are two of my favorite insects. Dragonflies are definitely the noisier of the two.

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12. The quest for freedom and rhythmic lifestyle embodies the movement of butterfly as a subject of poetry. Great poem, Christine.

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    1. Thank you Henry. I really appreciate it ☺️

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       1. Always my pleasure

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