{"id":425,"date":"2013-05-05T18:27:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2014-08-29T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T18:29:27","slug":"love-letter-from-a-dandelion-to-the-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/love-letter-from-a-dandelion-to-the-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Letter from a Dandelion to the Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The
The Dandelion and the Butterfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Butterfly, dancing in the breeze,
\nYou fly, only yourself to please,
\nFlutter, each boom to tease,
\nCarry on your dance at your ease.<\/p>\n

You kiss each one, each open bloom,
\nThat for you are open, making room,
\nAlas, I was closed, as if a tomb,
\nNever to cradle you as if a womb.<\/p>\n

And so you flew to the garden where you were from,
\nAmong other butterflies beautiful who from there come,
\nPrehaps I someday will meet and kiss some,
\nAs I the plant, sway in the breeze here, numb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Butterfly, dancing in the breeze, You fly, only yourself to please, Flutter, each boom to tease, Carry on your dance at your ease. You kiss each one, each open bloom, That for you are open, making room, Alas, I was closed, as if a tomb, Never to cradle you as …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[598,651,653,652,654],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","tag-butterfly","tag-butterfly-poem","tag-dandelion","tag-poem-on-butterflies","tag-poem-on-dandelions","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-6R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1527,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/she-loves-me-not-the-dandelion-said\/","url_meta":{"origin":425,"position":0},"title":"She Loves Me Not, The Dandelion Said","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th March 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Elle m'aime un peu, non, pas du tout\" The game of blowing on a dandelion stating does the object of your affections love you or not is of French origion, with the phrase above \"She loves me a little \/ not at all\"... the poem below is based on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Love Poems"","block_context":{"text":"Love Poems","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/love-poems\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Dandelion - The Oracle of Love","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dandelion-The-Oracle-of-Love.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dandelion-The-Oracle-of-Love.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dandelion-The-Oracle-of-Love.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dandelion-The-Oracle-of-Love.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dandelion-The-Oracle-of-Love.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":375,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/butterfly-she-flitted-and-settled-on-another-plant\/","url_meta":{"origin":425,"position":1},"title":"Butterfly – She Flitted And Settled On Another Plant","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"9th August 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Butterfly long flown, now settled Tears I fight, happy her flight Brought her to this - tears of loss That is my own, blame also! 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