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Butterfly

Butterfly floats free
Quickly through the crisp spring air
'Til it floats no more

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  • detectivediana
    May 17, 2007

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    i also like haikus.
    with this poem, i wonder why the butterfly stops floating. is it because it has been shot, or has it run into something? although i'm sure the last line refers to the butterfly, it grammatically talks about the spring air. so i wonder if it's the spring air that doesn't float (exist) anymore, because of the change in season. maybe the transition leads the butterfly to stop flying. or, maybe the butterfly is still flying, but the person who observes the butterfly is feeling sad, so they think the butterfly isn't really floating but drowning instead (pathetic fallacy: projecting one's feelings onto their environment/others). it could also be that the butterfly is out of sight, so the observer thinks the butterfly might have stopped floating, because the person can no longer see the butterfly. it'd be an inference of course, but we often wonder about the things that aren't immedinately present.