Poems by butterflyinflight, by newest first

• Clarity

  I could never paint you

  by butterflyinflight 13 lines, on Sep 18 12:40 AM. In Love
• Aubade

  you’re so picturesque / you could prolong / the moon.

  by butterflyinflight 2 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 24 12:39 AM 2007
• I like it when

  I like it when
  afterwards

  by butterflyinflight 15 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 30 1:26 AM 2007. In Love
• you told me

  white lies—
  enough for a snowfall

  by butterflyinflight 14 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 15 8:52 PM 2006. In Personal, Nature, Contemporary
• together song

  you rock away
  my moon pain skin cry

  by butterflyinflight 7 lines, 7 comments, on May 26 12:17 AM 2006. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• naked on Christian holidays

  I wear a tablecloth skirt
  with lace that twirls in a full circle when I think of you,

  by butterflyinflight 36 lines, 8 comments, on Apr 23 12:17 AM 2006. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• let's

  short poem. Kind of Christmasy.

  by butterflyinflight 8 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 24 1:18 PM 2005. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• Ch. 6

  There are trees in my lungs,
  whole orchards dusky in my mouth

  by butterflyinflight 12 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 8 7:30 PM 2005. In Spiritual, Love, Contemporary
• poem written after a long distance phone call received at two thirty in the morning

  by butterflyinflight 12 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 1 6:13 PM 2005. In Personal, Hope, Contemporary
• Early Byzantine

  Sweetheart, I’m learning that light
  Was somehow connected to God,

  by butterflyinflight 32 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 27 1:14 AM 2005. In Adult, Love, Contemporary
• is rain

  diaphragms
  pushing fires out of mouths

  by butterflyinflight 25 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 10 4:18 PM 2005. In Contemporary
• he had a power

  somewhere in the dark
  he wavered to my pleas.

  by butterflyinflight 63 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 5 9:32 PM 2005. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• i need you in the corner

  stream of consciousness poem thing.

  by butterflyinflight 17 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 3 12:23 AM 2005. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• four haiku

  by butterflyinflight 11 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 18 7:57 PM 2005. In Haiku, Personal, Love
• the pain of you

  you stretch me and I scream.
  I have no excess with which to receive you

  by butterflyinflight 40 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 10 1:05 AM 2005. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• Number of times a gentleman has offered his jacket to me

  because it was night time and I was cold
  and a lady:

  by butterflyinflight 73 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 1 2:02 AM 2005. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• we make hard deep love & you

  like wax beneath you

  by butterflyinflight 12 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 23 9:15 PM 2005. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• when we were gods

  When we were gods we never worried about
  loving our women– if we did, they were blessed:

  by butterflyinflight 38 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 17 12:00 AM 2005. In Other, Love, Contemporary
• i am ruth,

  this is anne empersonating ruth and doing quite a poor job of it. but it's odd and at least vaguely amusing.

  by butterflyinflight 6 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 14 1:26 AM 2005. In Dark, Hope, Contemporary
• back-to-basics

  homemade helter-skelter honeymoon
  hunky-dorky dumb/founded-in-our-hearts/a

  by butterflyinflight 22 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 12 12:31 AM 2005. In Love, Contemporary
• nothing doing

  these eyes mine /legs/ enveloped arms-pressed together and sealed/
  not as simple as a kiss/

  by butterflyinflight 21 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 11 1:05 AM 2005. In Love, Contemporary
• Suddenly

  you/ with me/ so-close-
  I-wish-I-could-describe-it/

  by butterflyinflight 17 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 6 12:33 AM 2005. In Love, Contemporary
• requiting you

  Yesterday I told myself I would stop loving you so much,
  I mean, stop loving your body so much

  by butterflyinflight 33 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 30 11:55 PM 2005. In Contemporary
• Same Moon

  I’m going off to discover my future and
  I’ll find out, I guess, if you’re a part of it.

  by butterflyinflight 49 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 25 12:21 PM 2005. In Love, Contemporary
• waiting for colour

  \everything is happening as it should:
  the lover is annihilated by the beloved,\

  by butterflyinflight 39 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 23 4:45 PM 2005. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• happy

  midnight came:
  another year begun without a kiss,

  by butterflyinflight 25 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 9 9:21 PM 2005. In Personal, Hope, Contemporary
• elegy

  in a parking lot
  that smells of deep fried sweets

  by butterflyinflight 54 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 3 6:03 PM 2005. In Society, Dark, Contemporary
• December

  a goose lies dead
  on the December sand

  by butterflyinflight 21 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 30 11:00 PM 2004. In Personal, Hope, Contemporary
• I can never tell with you

  without thinking
  I often invade your personal space,

  by butterflyinflight 32 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 30 10:56 PM 2004. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• orange peel wishes

  I don’t know how it became this way,
  when it was my hands first became reckless,

  by butterflyinflight 41 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 15 12:54 AM 2004. In Personal, Contemporary
• get up

  it’s all or nothing
  can’t have love if you don’t have life

  by butterflyinflight 13 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 6 11:40 PM 2004. In Personal, Hope, Contemporary
• tablecloth

  sweet-sliced temptation
  rests on a lace tablecloth

  by butterflyinflight 22 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 6 11:37 PM 2004. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• chemistry

  in the presence of such an acidic boy,
  like blue litmus she blushed red –

  by butterflyinflight 27 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 6 11:32 PM 2004. In Personal, Love, Contemporary
• get some

  by butterflyinflight 5 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 6 11:31 PM 2004. In Contemporary
• el cerdito vive en un poema (the piglet lives in a poem)

  please write me a poem
  escríbame por favor un poema

  by butterflyinflight 31 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 6 11:25 PM 2004. In Personal, Contemporary

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