with my finger I
trace the delicate pattern
lace wing butterfly
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Sharmagne Leland-St. John is a Native American poet, concert performer, lyricist, artist, and film maker. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the poetry e-zine Quill and Parchment.com. Sharmagne spends time between her home in the Hollywood Hills, in Southern California and her fishing lodge on the Stillaguamish River in the Pacific Northwest.
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36 thoughts on “”
Only a breath of wind-
the paper butterfly
goes on too
kala,
it’s short of amazing how some things remains at the forefront of my thoughts. this is to be said each time i see an orange butterfly, though i’m sure i’d seen thousands before. then came that faithful day, now i’ll be forever reminded of you.
i thank you.
you do flatter me – truly!
mark twain had said that he could live on a good compliment for two days …. well i can live on this for months and months !
thanks bobby.
Thanks for all the comments. I didn’t realise there would be any! Just Googled me and found them. Hey, is Ed Schwellenbach related to my fourth grade teacher? Mrs. Schwellenbach? She had grey hair and used to make us hold tarantulas on our hand! I covered mine with a pink sweater.
bob,
ketosis / ketoacidosis are
both acceptable. we on the medical front lines usually say, fruity breath.”” when someone’s
unconscious, there’s no time to squabble over semantics.
heads or tails?
the quarter is a quarter
is a quarter”
lawrence lawrence,
through your own admission, you fail to understand there is a major difference between the two terms; and yet many (think) the two interchangeable. first, everyone at some point is in a (harmless) state of ketosis, akin to survival(living off one’s body fat); however, i will not go any further in trying to explain the differences, unless you ask me to, simply (bury) the mistakes. oh yeah, it not so much a fruity aroma, but it’s mistaken as alcohol.
bob,
if you were in the medical field your patients would die while you haggled over
semantics. i work in the medical field, no one has time to debate this type
of foolishness.
bob,
i agree with prado, you are cliff clavan. the kind of
guy who had never been to paris, who would tell
someone from paris what it’s like to live in paris.
ketosis / ketoacidosis…one in the same.
lawrence, odd, you’ve tilted the debate more-so in my favor, in one word excessive””. anything outside the norm is excessive. it is normal for virtually all individuals to be in a state of ketosis from time to time, however ketoacidosis is a major emergency… where did you say you worked, the morgue.(j/k)
thanks collin
btw, i have resided in paris
——
days after wilma–
birds of a feather
perch on a wire, together
akin to hurricane andrew, when so many trees were devastated, and stripped bare, birds flocked to the power wires”
the point here is that in an emergency situation
there’s no time for semantics. the technicals
are tossed for life saving action. i’m
an er nurse bob, theory and practice are
two different things.
It’s almost as if you’re saying it’s okay to use bad grammar as long as you get your point across.
In the context of your original post that started this debate, it is incorrect to say ketosis. The acidosis is what causes the fruity breath””. Ketosis alone will not.
OK, with all due respect to Bob and Lawrence, the argument about ketosis has gone on long enough (and well past any relevance to haiku). I’m turning off comments here to give you all a chance to calm down. Peace.
Only a breath of wind-
the paper butterfly
goes on too
Great ‘ku, Sharmagne!
unnaturally still
a butterfly lands
on my waiting shoulder
orangeyard
the green sky
with flamy stars
first frost
who etched i love you “”
on my bedroom window”
broken winged
butterfly
broken flight
broken winged
butterfly
drunken flight
the armless man
caressing his dog
with a hook
gray butterfly—
rubbing the headstone
of his infant daughter
Interrupting
the morning fog,
an orange butterfly
That’s a nice one – Judith Ingram
-kala
solitary morning dance–
is this
kala’s orange butterfly
in the dead of night
silence–
the butterfly’s song
Bobby,
I take it as a compliment that you STILL remember my orange butterfly!
Ho! My day is done. . .my months …. my year.
Many thanks
-kala
kala,
it’s short of amazing how some things remains at the forefront of my thoughts. this is to be said each time i see an orange butterfly, though i’m sure i’d seen thousands before. then came that faithful day, now i’ll be forever reminded of you.
i thank you.
eternally
just me
you do flatter me – truly!
mark twain had said that he could live on a good compliment for two days …. well i can live on this for months and months !
thanks bobby.
with a song
in my heart
-kala
Thanks for all the comments. I didn’t realise there would be any! Just Googled me and found them. Hey, is Ed Schwellenbach related to my fourth grade teacher? Mrs. Schwellenbach? She had grey hair and used to make us hold tarantulas on our hand! I covered mine with a pink sweater.
bob and kala,
guess what? i’m gagging
on your sweetness, now
i’m in a full blown state of
ketosis!
That was good Lawrence . . .!
With Diwali around the corner . . .
i can offer you some more home-made sweets !!!
kala,
i’m glad you found the humor
in my response! one diwali
poem for you.
diwali dinner
a plate of vindaloo
reddens her cheeks
lawrence, perchance you meant ketoacidosis
bob,
ketosis / ketoacidosis are
both acceptable. we on the medical front lines usually say, fruity breath.”” when someone’s
unconscious, there’s no time to squabble over semantics.
heads or tails?
the quarter is a quarter
is a quarter”
lawrence lawrence,
through your own admission, you fail to understand there is a major difference between the two terms; and yet many (think) the two interchangeable. first, everyone at some point is in a (harmless) state of ketosis, akin to survival(living off one’s body fat); however, i will not go any further in trying to explain the differences, unless you ask me to, simply (bury) the mistakes. oh yeah, it not so much a fruity aroma, but it’s mistaken as alcohol.
strange, lawrence’s haiku brings to mind one from years ago, there being no similarity
———
tinywords
(18 September 2002)
stuck in a crack
of the old house’s roof beam
engraved wedding ring
-Kelley Jean White
strange how things recur within the framework of my thoughts, or perchance the sustenance of kelley’s made up for what lawrence’s lacked
bob,
if you were in the medical field your patients would die while you haggled over
semantics. i work in the medical field, no one has time to debate this type
of foolishness.
bobby,
are you really cliff klavan? you seem to know everything!
lawrence,
i never haggle over semantics, simply making the proper diagnosis. and yet, how many die from an assumption.
——
autumn morn
standing at the cross roads–
repetitive cuckold
prado,
are you confessing an observation; because i try to be, at least, clear on the facts.
——
he seagull””
so misunderstood–
anton chekhov(1860-1904)”
bob,
blow the dust off of your medical dictionary
and look it up. by the way, do you havean open spot
in your appointment book? i need a new doctor.
bob,
i agree with prado, you are cliff clavan. the kind of
guy who had never been to paris, who would tell
someone from paris what it’s like to live in paris.
ketosis / ketoacidosis…one in the same.
Immanuel Kant wrote a book on Africa, never even visiting it. As a matter of fact, the farthest he ever traveled from home was 40 miles.
bob is correct, but really, can’t we all just get along…
comatose father
a child learns the word
ketoacidosis
lawrence,
ketoacidosis is acidosis accompanied by ketosis, as in diabetic acidosis.
btw, I worked in the emergency room for 4 years, now I work in radiation therapy.
lawrence, odd, you’ve tilted the debate more-so in my favor, in one word excessive””. anything outside the norm is excessive. it is normal for virtually all individuals to be in a state of ketosis from time to time, however ketoacidosis is a major emergency… where did you say you worked, the morgue.(j/k)
thanks collin
btw, i have resided in paris
——
days after wilma–
birds of a feather
perch on a wire, together
akin to hurricane andrew, when so many trees were devastated, and stripped bare, birds flocked to the power wires”
the point here is that in an emergency situation
there’s no time for semantics. the technicals
are tossed for life saving action. i’m
an er nurse bob, theory and practice are
two different things.
lawrence,
It’s almost as if you’re saying it’s okay to use bad grammar as long as you get your point across.
In the context of your original post that started this debate, it is incorrect to say ketosis. The acidosis is what causes the fruity breath””. Ketosis alone will not.
Just a friendly response,
Collin”
bob & lawrence,
you’re mirror images of each other. anybody out
there got a muzzle?
OK, with all due respect to Bob and Lawrence, the argument about ketosis has gone on long enough (and well past any relevance to haiku). I’m turning off comments here to give you all a chance to calm down. Peace.