When chaos plays a part in things
The smallest change may amplify
The beating of two tiny wings
A single little butterfly
An error in the final place
You did not count the baby's sigh
And all the numbers start to race
Against the little butterfly
You see it on the roulette wheel
You cannot cheat though many try
No man alive can really feel
The wing-beat of a butterfly
When chaos plays a part in things
It only takes a butterfly
A billion trillion atoms bounce
To keep her flying to the sky
She doesn't not even weigh an ounce
That influential butterfly
You'd have to see where atoms flee
And Heisenberg would soon deny
You knowing that with certainty
About your tiny butterfly
The mathematic'ly inclined
May even want to take a try
The wiser ones though have declined
To try to plot the butterfly
A billion trillion atoms bounce
About the pretty butterfly
I hope that now you start to know
Why forecasters all seem to cry
The weather's always bound to go
At diktat from the butterfly
The perfect scales make children gasp
When they first see them flutter by
But they will never think to ask
Predictions of the butterfly
The randomness of life is right
A perfect plan is just a lie
I'd rather marvel at the light
That's scattered by a butterfly
I hope that now you start to know
The truth about that butterfly
Author notes
A triple modified kyrielle sonnet (14 line poem with each line in iambic tetrameter where lines 4,8,12 & 14 are modified versions of the same line) on the prompt of "the butterfly effect"
In a list
A contest entry
- The Butterfly Effect by SeptemberFaith.
1400 points, ended December 22, 2008, 17 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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wow, Wonderful written so well, Perfect. Keep writting jeff Keep writting.
~ Chelsey ♥ -
I really liked that your poem flowed very well.. I could hear a little tune in my head and I always like when poetry is put to muisc
This is beautiful and expresses what I was looking for almost to a t.
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Very high level and imaginative
love the physics and chemistritic facts you;ve incorporated
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When I entered this contest, you told me you had entered as well. So here I am to "check out" the competition. You did a fantastic job of modifying the kyrielle sonnet as you bent it just enough to keep the form and the reader's interest. I love the scientific intoneation that you composed in this masterpiece.
Love,
Amera♥
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A lovely poem Jeff.I will have to look out for that butterfly.Remeber, she only lived for one day, Ros
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I know little about the different forms in poetry What i do know is what i enjoy reading this one easily meets my criteria Excellent
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Simply beautiful.
nothing more to be said
Love you
Passions
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brilliant
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Bravo! Standing in applause!
Wow. I mean
WOW
Excellent. A triple modified Kyrielle sonnet
I have got to try one. This was simply delightful. It sang such a beautiful tune and the repeating lines only enhanced.
Oh my, I loved this. Excellent. I will never look at a butterfly quite the same way again. From now on, it will sing within its fluttered beauty.
Bravo poet! ~Pamela
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Wonderul creation of a triple modified sonnet! Impressive write. Always had a fondness for Butterflies! ~Sie
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