11 Poems About Butterflies That Will Make Your Heart Flutter
11 Poems About Butterflies That Will Make Your Heart Flutter
Butterflies offer us a delicate insight into the world of growth. So often we see their pretty wings flutter by, forgetting the immense transformation undergone to achieve this level of beauty. After spending weeks as a caterpillar, and liquifying their tiny bodies within their own cocoon, their remerge bigger, brighter and more expansive than ever – with wings.
However, did you know that the average lifespan of these delicate creatures is just two-six weeks? Whilst walking the Cornish Coast Path last year, I found my eyes fluttering to follow a tiny blue butterfly. As I watched her dance amongst the wind I felt simultaneously inspired and sentimental as I realised that beautiful moments can be as fleeting as a butterflies life.
Here are eleven heart-fluttering poems to remind you that growth is a process; in order to experience beauty, we must first surrender to being reborn. I hope these poems inspire you to embrace change, transform through pain and step up into your most beautiful, yet fleeting life
Poems About Butterflies
1. Wings – Jadine Lydia
days flutter by
and I wonder
does the butterfly know
that today might be the last day
that she flaps her pretty wings?
extract from ‘Simple Truths’
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2. The Most Beautiful Thing About Butterflies - Mia Mae
3. Like a Butterfly On Your Hand - Serena
4. Butterfly Wings - Alexandra J. Vincent
5. Becoming a Butterfly - Ember Adelline
6. Metamorphasis - @sunbeam.serenity.inspirations
7. Outstretched Wings - Jadine Lydia
stretch out your wings,
wide, honest and open;
glorify the beauty of life,
with the fragility of your wings.
catch the breathe of life,
with the undercurrents
of microsopic movements,
that have the potential
to change the entire
trajectory of your life;
in which one gust of wind
could land you in the garden
of eden, drinking sweet nectar
from honeysuckle buds;
whilst remembering,
that one gust of wind
can b r e a t h e life
and another can end it all.
original poem – @jadinelydia
8. The Butterfly is Proof – Beau Taplin
9. Butterflies Are Great Reminders -@thejollysoul
10. Grief is a Butterfly - Toni Young
11. My Darling, What If You Fly? - Erin Hanson
A Beautiful Reminder Of the Fragility of Life
Your heart doesn’t do anything halfway – and neither does this book.
Only some people feel life across every spectrum, as if they are living and dying, falling and flying and feeling and writhing into every last piece of what it means to be alive. If you are one of these people, Simple Truths is for you.
Remind yourself that your fragility isn’t weakness. It’s a testiment to the deepest parts of you, because some truths deserve to be felt, not just read.
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