Red Admiral: 12 June 2017
I discarded riches, discarded clothes
Discarded flesh from off my bones
To take the step incomparable
To stand before you,
Vulnerable.
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
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Such a beautiful butterfly. I read it returns to you in May and is very people-friendly. Is there a story here? 🙂
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With the butterfly? Nah. Just a photo taken a couple years back. I thought how vulnerable, yet trusting it looked. Seemed to suit the prompt.
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Yes it does perfectly fit the prompt 🙂 That’s what I read. They actually trust people, or so this article said. That may have caused the demise of many, which makes the butterfly beautifully perfect. Nice write! 😊🌼🦋
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I dip my head to you. 🙂
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So are you working on the level of metaphor, or has this risen to allegory?
I hope not the level of alligators, for one of them would destroy this butterfly in a moment.
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If I say the word Gnosticism. will you catch on?
It links back to my take on Anathema, as in Nag Hammadi (2nd April).
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So, yes, allegory. 🙂
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I know I’ve been labelled as mad, but I’m not so mad that I’ll jump on a pyre in the hope of gaining two jots of divine wisdom.
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Why? How many jots will it take before you jump on a pyre?
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A hell of a lot more than two!
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That Sophia is hardcore! Lovely poem!
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More hardcore than you know. Thanks for liking and leaving a comment. 🙂
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Such a proud butterfly, the red is striking. Beautiful poem.🙂
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I thank you. I chose the photo for how vulnerable that butterfly seems, wings outstretched on the path
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I somehow missed this one…
That is a definite show of vulnerability…
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Hey, but you found me in the end.
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