Butterfly Killer or: A Savior of Butterflies
by Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen — Read all 1,670 poems by Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
Saturday, August 5, 2006
Oh, butterflies! Why must you congregate
Your cocooned rebirth ‘cross deadly freeways
Of speeding death? I weep each hit! I hate
The sight of fragile bodies splayed like prey
Against my windshields glass ‘teeth’! Hate the shame
Of innocent slaughter of innocence…
Hate … fate. What? How so? How not? They become
Me. Afflicted, or sought, Earth-birth is bought
With sacrifices, with devices Man
Has wrought. And, so, butterflies, Tahoe-killed,
Show death is always the end of this plan.
Still, three escape me, then more, to fulfill
The life of butterflies. Yet, those I slew
Had futures disrupted, ‘Me' non-debuted...
Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© Copyright 8/5/06
I am intrigued with the layers that this write can attain the reader too. Especially the spiritual aspect. I also enjoyed the force with which these thoughts collided with my mind.
In poetic vision and sanity ...
Richard Lloyd Cederberg
I have developed a method from my science knowledge(a scientific method-jokingly) all reactions have an equal and opposite reaction" Those things appearing in our lives -you can apply asa karatee expert could the forces of nature. In example where the road withthe butterflies were-next time you pass by -pull over-use the car -remember the collision-impact-drift a little or touch as if to lift what you estimate the weight of butterflies-focus the car lights flashlights etc,thinkof all the other butterflies,wildlife, animals around to aid you, think al living things have a tower of turning space around to protect them,maybe obstructions growninthe way since then-breath life -lift-reverse of impact-these forces are also for the life of butterflies you msust be sensitive to, are different in every case from yourself. You occupy ful space and so do they where they are at-behind to in front of you etc-where you are is similiar towhere they are. Have a cigarette so you can be located ,movements seen. The focus is on them so ther place that is not where you car collided, make a delay to deliver the aid, if needed like a chain.
So you feel better and so do the butterflies.
Marvin
Thank you from my dusty winged beauties.
Susan