Minstrel Streams: Poetry

The caterpillar learns to crawl

Thru weeds and grass, up garden walls.

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Moving with her tiny feet

She crosses sidewalks and the streets.

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Back in her garden flowers abound.

Buzzing bees can there be found.

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The bees fly 'round, around the trees

And with their song they seem so free.

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Freedom takes awhile to be found.

The caterpillar's on the ground.

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The caterpillar crawls into her room.

Dark and damp - her own cocoon.

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Some sunny day she then flies out.

A butterfly is now about.

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Freedom found...freedom gained.

She shows her joy in purple rain.

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She flies so high...flies so low.

Beautiful creature, all aglow.

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And so we see, and so we sigh.

Be not afraid... be a butterfly.

                                                        Matt Stuart

Sparkles in the sand

Join ocean waves in glistening delight.

White frothy waves look up to 

White cotton puffs

That are ever-moving in their wordless flight

In noisy silence.

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Blue skies meet blue waters.

Eternity touches frailty, and moves on

In noisy silence.

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Transparent hands perform their glorious work.

Absent substances become flawless wonder.

Life is formed.

Light and dark forever seen now

In noisy silence.

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Touching, feeling, loving, hoping,

Life is here; His light I bear! 

The Creator touches mortal.

And we move on 

In noisy silence. 

                                                  Rebecca Stuart