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
2. The Butterfly – Margaret Rose
I know a little butterfly with tiny golden wings,
he plays among the summer flowers and up and down he swings,
he dances on their honey cups so happy all the day,
and then he spreads his tiny wings – and softly flies away.
3. Untitled – Rupi Kaur
you do not just wake up and become the butterfly.
growth is a process
extract from – The Sun and her Flowers
4. Untitled – Luke Levi
Knowing nothing
of worldly things
a butterfly
is born.
by Luke Levi
5. Untitled – V.J. Markham
No one knows the growth
she made
in order to survive,
she is both fierce and fragile
in equal measure.
extract from – Incantations of a Wild Heart
6. Untitled – Vishakha
life is more than those broken dreams,
maybe you would fly higher with the damaged wings.
by Vishakha
7. Butterfly Effect – Unknown
The scientific theory that a single occurrence,
no matter how small,
can change the course of the universe forever.
Pinterest – Unknown Author
8. Untitled – Beau Taplin
Perhaps the butterfly is proof
that you can go through a great deal of darkness
yet still become something beautiful.
by Beau Taplin
9. Untitled – Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is like a butterfly,
the more you chase it,
the more it will evade you,
but if you notice the other things around you,
it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.
10. Untitled - Robert A. Heinlein
Butterflies are not insects –
they are self-propelled flowers.
extract from – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
11. Butterfly Wings – Sabrina Laura
We all need
some measure of comfort,
the safety of a cocoon.
But I remind myself
that change is good,
that I cannot spend
my whole life
being a caterpillar.
That courage
wears the butterfly wings
and the sky has never looked
more inviting.
extract from – Moonflower
p.s if you like deep and meaningful, yet delicate poetry, you may like my latest poetry collection Simple Truths.
