My Beautiful Butterfly
Dont light on me my beautiful butterfly
I saw you spread your wings before me
and I knew you.
Unforgettable beauty
You are free
You are fresh and new as the blossoms near
Taste of sweet nectar and
dance on colorful petals
and spread the pollen far
Dont light on me my beautiful butterfly
for my colors are faded
petals fragile and stem wont carry weight
Long before I saw you
I longed for you and loved you
and I imagined you
and you had touched me pure and
fragrant in my tender spring
Dont light on me my beautiful butterfly
but dont forget me
Bask in the dawn and soft sunlight
Feel the summer breeze flutter
through your velvet wings
alight on one lovely bloom
and be still
and be happy
my beautiful butterfly
by tafj sbs
2006-12-22 16:53:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
I think this person is in love with that butterfly!!
2006-12-22 16:56:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I will go with an elderly person contemplating love. I think the butterfly/flower metaphor does not imply a specific "younger" person, but is rather a means of reflecting on the attempt to participate in love at earlier times in the writer's life. Something along the lines of Dylan Thomas: "though lovers die, love will not." The line "but don't forget me" would mean that the writer was once a lover and wants love to keep this aspect of the past eternal.
2006-12-23 03:56:42 · answer #2 · answered by badmanbrown 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's about an elderly person that sees that a younger person has some facination with them, as it says "Dont light on me my beautiful butterfly for my colors are faded, petals fragile, and stem wont carry weight" The elderly person does not want to complicate the youngster by allowing any more of a bond to grow
2006-12-23 01:11:01 · answer #3 · answered by hudson_floridamale 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a beautiful poem that expresses two seemingly contradictory feelings of Desire/Longing as well as Sacrifice which the narrator (Flower) expresses as as integral emotion to the butterfly (It's object of love & desire).
The Flower knows what is good for the butterfly, & his true love is put above his selfish desires.
It expresses the old maxim "If you love someone set her free".
The poem can be compared to human selfless love & that's what makes this poem beautiful.
2006-12-23 01:09:08 · answer #4 · answered by Vaakshri 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a person, who has become old and jaded (withered, if you will) with life has caught the attention of someone who is full on with life. Although this (type of) bright person has been in the mind and heart and hopes of the now faded person, he/she can see/feel that there is nothing left within to offer someone who is so full and life - and deserves to be with someone who is also as full and will sustain them (hence the butterfly-flower symbiotic relationship)
Just a stab at it. :)
2006-12-23 01:09:00 · answer #5 · answered by Lucy_Fur 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A poetic dear john/jane letter by an older person who does not feel good enough but still cares for the younger person.
2006-12-23 01:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by czar 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The poet recalls the time he witnessed the metamorphosis of a butterfly.
2006-12-23 01:03:07 · answer #7 · answered by xander 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel that the narrator is ashamed of their own ugliness, and does not want to weight down the "beautiful butterfly", since he/she is gorgeous and pure, while the narrator feels that himself/herself is ugly.
A very moving poem
2006-12-23 00:57:29 · answer #8 · answered by Short and sweet 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One of letting go...giving freedom...right to lead a better life...but looking at the lessons of the past.
2006-12-23 01:34:12 · answer #9 · answered by Willie Boy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Someone believes they aren't good enough for the person they love.
2006-12-23 01:02:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋