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Painted Lady

November 13, 2013
By juliannex BRONZE, Ellicott City, Maryland
juliannex BRONZE, Ellicott City, Maryland
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Favorite Quote:
"you wish upon a star for true love and ten thousand years later two cockroaches pause momentarily before crawling past each other" - Vanessa Irena


I'm awakened by soft rustling
then sheathed in silence
Through a fine ghost shell, I glimpse
color-stained blurs, like tissue thin birds
I wriggle out of a green scaled dress
and inch along chrysalis walls
Smelling perfumed Angel White Lilacs
I clumsily land to taste sugary sweet
and syrupy nectar
Surprised that these still misty wings
could carry me


The author's comments:
Inspired by my trips to butterfly gardens as a child

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