Tag: butterfly cinquain

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    Butterfly Cinquain 8

    blind worm writhes, knots himself into a pink and red cat’s cradle, I slice the earth clod and he tumbles into utter darkness as the brown soil crumbles, no tomb for him – he’s home butterfly cinquain © Freya Pickard 2016 I’ve started making some videos about my writing! Please check them out at The Rusalka […]

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    Butterfly Cinquain 7

    seedlings burgeon as year waxes, I transplant nine young sunflowers into pots, pressing rich compost firmly with gloved hands and watering them in. Looking forward – summer butterfly cinquain © Freya Pickard 2016 I’ve started making some videos about my writing! Please check them out at The Rusalka Ritual, The Essence of Thyme and Patreon

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    Butterfly Cinquain 6

    jackdaw swerves in mid-air grasps hold of bare branch and wobbles, sways to and fro, trying to get his balance without his black tail. Watches me with pale eye, wanting pastry – hungry butterfly cinquain © Freya Pickard 2016

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    Butterfly Cinquain 5

    misted trees softened by both rain and emerging leaf. The landscape undulates and sways in a green-touched prevailing wind from the south. Yellow- green now are the spiky branches. butterfly cinquain © Freya Pickard 2016

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    Butterfly Cinquain 4

    beads of moisture on blade of grass, scent of dampness permeates the misty air, rain – drops fall, soft and mild on earth and leaf, as these April showers drift in on the south- west wind. butterfly cinquain © Freya Pickard 2016