The Butterfly Princesses

The Butterfly Princesses

A Poem by Adam Latham

Atop the blanched plume of a pampas grass stem, 
Overlooking a sea of white daisies
Stretching out to the edge of a wild flower lea
Where the forget-me-not bumble bee lazes,
Is the grandiose house of the Butterfly King
Filled with treasures and precious excesses,
With a bright yellow spire built from pollen ball bricks
Home to three rather lovely princesses.
The fairest of all in that field and beyond
Their beauty was famed and fought over
By the slow sliding slug sheikhs of blackberry nook
And the ladybird lords camped in clover.
Each one with wide eyes firmly fixed on a prize
That made shy spiders scurry and scutter,
To see those red painted yet delicate wings
Underneath sun kissed skies gently flutter. 
Lovesick and besotted with hearts beating fast
Each suitor petitioned for marriage,
To win for themselves a sweet butterfly bride
To parade in a crab apple carriage.
But the majestic monarch alongside his queen,
Both filled with parental devotion,
Wished for their three daughters to choose for themselves
And would not entertain such a notion. 

© 2018 Adam Latham


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Added on February 13, 2018
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Adam Latham
Adam Latham

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom



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