The Copper

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 Tanka Tuesday No. 252 

photo prompt:

image credit: Lisa Smith Nelson

While last week's prompt included writing a butterfly cinquain, I couldn't help but write one again for this week's prompt!  

🦋       🦋       🦋       🦋       🦋       🦋       🦋

Warm sun

Rich sweet nectar

Days filled with abundance

Crickets chirping by bright moon light

Chill wind

The asters frozen by morning

The butterflies are gone

Mourn their brief lives

Too short


©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

The Purplish Copper butterfly shown in the photo has a life span of only, on average, two weeks. 

  #TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 252 #PHOTOPROMPT

Comments

  1. EugeniaNovember 16, 2021 at 3:59 PM

    So lovely! A butterfly cinquain is a perfect choice for the prompt, Lisa.

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  2. LisaNovember 16, 2021 at 5:10 PM

    Thank you!

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  3. WildChild47November 18, 2021 at 7:07 AM

    I had to smile at your decision to write another butterfly cinquain - I thought many might want to go this route, since it's fitting. Your poetic imagery, the word choices, are wonderful, really capturing the essences of these special, albeit too brief moments. So too wings must flutter and wave good-bye. I think your poem translates the excitement and delight you must have felt when you captured the image - a lovely companion, each to the other, (photo and poem, and butterfly and aster).

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    1. LisaNovember 24, 2021 at 7:11 PM

      I thought they might too. Thank you for your kind words.

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