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The Butterfly, collaboration with Mystic Rose Rose

'As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneath a tinted sky of April blue flight of fancy fanning fast, fabulous marvel, she is beauty true on true' ~ Mystic Rose Rose my chrysalis heart traces her sparkling scales, kissed by saffron haze, mirroring flickering flutters through her deep, warm, balmy gaze, amidst petals unfurling diamond dreams, sewn with golden strings, and sepals sprouting cerulean serenity, caressing sapphire wings… but in the spring-touched garden of iridescent desire, like tiny silhouettes pirouetting as wisps in the rain-soaked choir, she scatters whimsical wishes across healing meadows, erasing wild rose pollen steeped in woeful throes of crestfallen shadows…

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Paige Hind

Date: 4/20/2025 9:34:00 PM

This is gorgeous, Ink- both of you did such a beautiful job! A pleasure to read, truly- two lights <3 :)

Valsa George

Date: 4/17/2025 11:45:00 PM

There is your indelible stamp in all that you write, dear friend. That's why you are always addressed as Empress by me.... You are truly the empress of words scrawled in ink! Hearty Congratulations on your top win, dear.

Sara Kendrick

Date: 4/17/2025 3:53:00 AM

Nice one that the two of you have written. Aren't butterflies beautiful and add so much gentleness and color to our world. I have seen several yellow swallowtails and one Georgia blue this year but so few flowers in my garden for them to drink from this early, but they have plenty of wild thing blooming. Soupmail soon. Sara K

Ink Empress
Date: 4/17/2025 7:43:00 AM

Awn thank you dear sara! For your beautiful comment! So grateful

Yann Rolland

Date: 4/17/2025 2:33:00 AM

magical duo, so much harmony and delicacy , like painting touches, enjoyed your poem and the creativity of images, merci poètes

Zyrool Gifford

Date: 4/17/2025 12:12:00 AM

Hello IE, this is exquisitely beautiful and brilliantly executed. A pleasurable read. Sending Blessings and wishing you a wonderful Easter weekend, my friend.

Evelyn Judy Buehler

Date: 4/16/2025 3:18:00 PM

This is exquisite poetry, dear Ink! I loved 'diamond dreams,' 'crestfallen shadows,' 'tiny silhouettes pirouetting,' and others! I love butterfles. Thank you for sharing this beautiful poem.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 4/16/2025 1:32:00 PM

wow, you should take the prize with this marvelous writing , Inky. Love when you rhyme!

Lioness Onpaper

Date: 4/16/2025 11:43:00 AM

As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew… oh my !!! Wat a glorious imagary this has imprinted into my head!!! flight of fancy fanning fast, fabulous marvel, oooo child come through alliterations !!! tiny silhouettes pirouetting as wisps in the rain-soaked choir, Oh damn!!!! That is absolutely gorgeous papi!!! erasing wild rose pollen steeped in woeful throes… The soft beauty!!

Justin Bordner

Date: 4/16/2025 11:15:00 AM

The Butterfly's artful resourcefulness is in vibrant view herein Poetess. She is a wish that was, that is, and a wish that will be, living on a spectrum of unrehearsed heartbeats. "She is beauty true on true..." That's beautiful Zen. The final line conveys a rich sense of wisdom. Exquisite use of texture and color...J.A.B.

Sotto Poet

Date: 4/16/2025 11:15:00 AM

Dear Ink, this is an excellent poem that covers themes of beauty, metamorphosis, and the transient nature of joy and desire. It captures the sense of being attracted by nature's beauty and the emotions it elicits, notably via the depiction of a butterfly interacting with flowers in a spring garden. The language utilized is rich and evocative, with sensory elements that paint vivid pictures. Phrases like "nectar from a flower," "soft rain," and "sparkling scales" highlight nature's beauty and delicacy.

I Am Anaya

Date: 4/16/2025 11:01:00 AM

Nice, Ink Empress, I especially loved, cerulean serenity and iridescent desire!

Ink Empress
Date: 4/17/2025 7:43:00 AM

Thank you so much for your kind visit

Di11y Da11y

Date: 4/16/2025 7:54:00 AM

So dreamy Ink! I love the blue upon blue of cerulean and sapphire - I never thought I'd say that lol. Every line is utterly beautiful. Good luck in the contest :)

Ink Empress
Date: 4/17/2025 7:43:00 AM

Haha

Di11y Da11y
Date: 4/17/2025 6:54:00 AM

Haha consider me converted. It was easy in the end lol

Ink Empress
Date: 4/17/2025 6:50:00 AM

Awn i wouldnt ever expect you to like a poem with cerulean in it, reading you for sometime now , i know you dont use such words, hah so knowing you liked it, its like a win for me!

Tom Woody

Date: 4/16/2025 5:38:00 AM

I've seen a number of these, all of them good. Yours is artful, classy, eloquent. Awesome poetry

Tom Woody
Date: 4/18/2025 12:56:00 PM

Inky I consider myself a good rhymer but I use rhyme zone all the time. I use a thesaurus a lot too :)

Ink Empress
Date: 4/17/2025 6:49:00 AM

Iv seen better entries, and im not a very fluent rhymer, had to open rhyme zone to do this one, and did it in ten or fifteen minutes so getting an NA is fair I suppose . Thank you for saying that its nice. Grateful