Tag: butterflies

VERSE | BUTTERFLIES

On By Mahvash K. M.In Joy, poetry, verse, womenwriters, writingLeave a comment 
There have been extra days of rain 
Delaying the heat of the approaching summer 
In spontaneous, joyful
Shimmering showers 
It has streamed down or drizzled for hours 
There has been a surge of butterflies 
Yellow, brown, blue and white 
Flitting all over the place 
Happy for a few more days 
Of life and vitality 
I see them floating among the flowers 
Cavorting in spring-lavished bowers
Treading warm currents of air 
Over pavements where the cracks 
Are speckled with dancing weeds 
Over an emerald oasis of grass 
Loop-de-looping when they pass 
Another bloom 
That’s sprung up between the blades 
Glorious, serendipitous
Delirious on springtime bliss
They somersault back 
To bestow a nectary kiss
On soft, dewy petal lips
Beating gossamer wings
Evanescent, paper-thin
Revelling in bountiful life
The inevasible heat 
A distant ordeal 
For now in their bejewelled flights 
The spring-born butterflies
In pure rapture will remain 
Celebrating the extra days of rain.
Image: Fine Art America

KIDSBOOKS | QUIBBLE THE CATERPILLAR

On By Mahvash K. M.In bookworm, kidlit, Kidsbooks, writingLeave a comment 
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Quibble was a caterpillar 
Grumpy as they come
He’d scowl at all who came his way 
Always looking glum  

He’d eat his way through the leaves
Of the milkweed plants around him
He’d kick his brothers and sisters away 
If near him he found them 

He crunched and munched on and on 
Until his skin grew tight 
And he couldn’t lift a leg or six 
However hard he tried

He was extra grumpy now
Feeling like a balloon 
So he made himself a silken bed 
And thought he’d take a snooze 

He fussed and grumbled in his sleep
For twelve whole days and nights 
And then crawled out of bed legs first
Feeling blithe and feather-light 

Quibble wondered why he wasn’t 
Frowning at the world 
When suddenly he discovered 
His wings of black and gold

He spread them out joyfully 
And went soaring in the sky
Quibble the caterpillar was now 
Monarch the butterfly