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Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1082819-Now-I-am-become-Butterfly
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2333565
A mixed collection of prose and poetry written for various WdC activities in 2025.
#1082819 added January 26, 2025 at 11:33am
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Now I am become Butterfly

The simple and unassuming butterfly
         so infinitely capable of mass destruction

Hurricane-force whirlwinds
         swirl and twirl in the aftermath
                   of one beat of its sheer wings

How can it be
         so blissfully unaware
                   of the chaos it sows with every move

Unless the blissfully unaware
         simple and unassuming butterfly
                   is really just a beautiful,
                             delicate obliterator.
                                       A destroyer of worlds.


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Line Count: 13

Written For: "Cards Against AuthorsOpen in new Window.

Prompts (Week 2):
         Prompt Card: A butterfly as a villain
                   +
         Word Cards: Glimmering, Whirlwind (You only need to choose one word to use)
                   +
         Wild Card: Constraint: Two lines in your poem must either use only one-syllable words or no one-syllable words.

Form: Free Verse
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