Fleeting Greetings

This month I have been holding a Creative Spring Challenge in which I post a video prompt each day and participants respond to the prompt using their preferred creative medium and share. The challenge is generating a lot of positive, creative energy and some participants have asked me to continue with this beyond the month of March. If you too would like to be included, connect with me via Facebook (Sam Allen Coaching Creatively) and I will add you. Yesterday’s prompt was butterflies and so I wrote the following poem…

🦋 Butterflies 🦋

What if this were the kind of love

that flutters by

all ladybird red and wide-eyed? 🐞

The ferociously fly-by type that swoops

into your heart with wooing wings

silencing any sense of reason

you ever had?

So many smitten souls have been sold to the sticky wings of ephemeral fancy

chancing earth and everything

for a fleeting

kiss 💋

Perhaps it’s safer to chase the fluttering feelings from a distance

simply watching as the perfumed pollination of the pulling

draws in and then retracts?

Photo : https://diygarden.co.uk/wildlife/ultimate-guide-to-butterflies/