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Artemisia Writes's avatar

Absolutely beautiful. This is truly light and breezy, and kineticall visual 🦋 (wrong butterfly species in the emoji collection!).

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Ruth Lexton's avatar

Thank you for your lovely comment. Whatsapp has the painted lady for its butterfly. Perhaps we need an essay on the various choices of butterfly emojis on different platforms!

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Artemisia Writes's avatar

Yessss! Good idea!

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Joel Wisniewski's avatar

Wonderful!

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Emma Goldman-Sherman's avatar

It is light and breezy with its unrhymed couplet structure, like both sides of the wings brought together, the couplets work well, and yet there is much internal rhyme like arrive kaleidoscope high in the first couplet alone, and avoid cross navigate and Thames sensed oriented… rooftop mob… wonderfully done!

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Ruth Lexton's avatar

Thanks so much Emma. Your eye for detail is much appreciated 🦋

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Caroline Mellor's avatar

Poignant and beautifully crafted poem! Congrats on having it published 🦋🧡

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Ruth Lexton's avatar

Thank you Caroline! I'm glad you liked it ☺️

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