About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Everyday Canvas #939371 added August 8, 2018 at 11:50am Restrictions: None
The Life of a Butterfly
Prompt: "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it turned into a butterfly." What are your views on this? Write anything you want about this.
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Life is a catch-22 affair, in which we feel discontent in our present situation in some way and grope for bigger and better; not that there’s anything wrong with aiming high, but what of the end? What happens when we reach the end?
As such, when the caterpillar is a caterpillar, it keeps on eating to shed its skin a few times in a row. Then, it may become tired of the repetition, and in tedium and melancholy, it may just dangle from a branch to build a cocoon around itself. When it is done being in the cocoon, it frantically pushes itself out of it. Then, suddenly finds itself a beautiful butterfly. A being the caterpillar never imagined it could be.
Now it has a beautiful, happy existence under the sun, but it still lacks knowledge. The knowledge of nature, which says a butterfly’s life is the end of things.
What I gather from this evolution is:
• Don’t rush through your stages.
• Each stage is a blessed event; just enjoy where you are, what you are
• Don’t take to the air too soon. At least, not before developing strong wings to carry you.
• Don’t give up on your situation, ever. There’s always the next step…that is until you become a butterfly.
• When you make it to the butterfly stage, be happy with where you are because where you are won’t last too long. And this is the catch-22 of it all.
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