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Jun 03
poetry challenge: Definition
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Moth

swimming in a midnight stew of silver sky
as light as the froth blown from the seas
the liquid moonlight cries, "come here!"

shimmering your sandy glow like
december mist illuminated by the quiet porch light
you hear colors when she calls your name

swirling towards her faint glow
you drink her light like nectar

sprinkling sugar on skin
made of your powdered dust you
glide in your repetitive pattern

shivers a luminous beating heart
cupped in the hands of a honeysuckle's flower

shaped by micro-feathers and
pocket-sized wings
a boneless body made of paper-thin glass
too delicate for
brittle human hands to touch
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Posted: 06.03.22
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  1. Sawyer Fell
    Jun 04, 2022

    this is art! i adore the way you intricately described such a seemingly simple thing :) you really captured the essence of a moth.

    i have a vision of what i want to do but the picture is too blurry and i can never remember to clean my glasses…

    but now i wear contacts and everything is so much clearer than before!(updated april 2023)

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  1. raphaellalaurence
    Jun 04, 2022

    thank you! <3

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  1. Rubber Soul
    Jun 05, 2022

    Your descriptions are so accessable yet so poetic! The words you use feel very hand-picked and they flow nicely. Love it!

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  1. raphaellalaurence
    Aug 06, 2022

    thank you so much! <3

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  1. eyesofIris
    Jun 30, 2022

    This is such a beautiful poem! I could see so many of the images in my mind. My favorite lines are: "december mist illuminated by the quiet porch light," "you drink her light like nectar," and "a boneless body made of paper-thin glass." This is such a great way to describe a moth! I feel like moths are kind of the forgotten/dismissed cousins of butterflies, but they really have a lot of beauty and poetry. Thank you for sharing!

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  1. raphaellalaurence
    Aug 06, 2022

    i love to hear that - its exactly what i wanted the reader to take away from this poem :)

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