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The Butterfly Effect; a Poem

She opens the minds of the meek
and has sent her message to kings.
Her ripples of love touch my cheek
from tiny diaphanous wings.

Puffing her chest in elation
she echoes vibrations and sings.
Using the pow’r of creation
from tiny diaphanous wings.

Never think your actions are small
for the ripples can change all things.
Remember the butterfly’s call
from tiny diaphanous wings.

She opens the minds of the meek
from tiny diaphanous wings.

 

 

 

Author notes

The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. So this is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.

The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. Of course the butterfly cannot literally cause a tornado. The kinetic energy in a tornado is enormously larger than the energy in the turbulence of a butterfly. The kinetic energy of a tornado is ultimately provided by the sun and the butterfly can only influence certain details of weather events in a chaotic manner.
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  • SeptemberFaith
    December 22, 2008

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    I think is is so much like cause and effect...which I guess is what the butterfly effect is all about.

    Great job.
    Criss


  • Paloszoo gold member
    November 21, 2008

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    Damn you're good!

    I love this. I've never come across a work of yours that was mediocre, and this one is brilliant. It mesmerized me! BRAVO, my friend!


  • kiwigirljacks gold member
    November 16, 2008

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    Fantastic! Now this theme could have been cliche but you have made it so far from that. This is adorable as well as powerful!!

    And I just watched the movie The Butterfly Effect yesterday again!!


  • Swan song gold member
    November 15, 2008

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    You are truly a very bright star shinning in the sky
    who could get lost with such lovely brillance!


  • Disturbed Prodigy
    November 15, 2008

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    i don't know what to think here i just know that i was blown away by this poem and i got a lesson out of it too ,keep it flowing and good luck in the contest


  • melphleg gold member
    November 12, 2008

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    Impressive again. Your words create a vision of a butterfly in flight as well as convey the theory of the butterfly affect.


  • Pure Thought silver member
    November 11, 2008

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    Loved the whole thing. Poem, author's Notes and especially the Effect.
    I think it was Robert Heinlein who wrote a good Sci-fi short story about this very thing.


  • sailor ptolema
    November 11, 2008
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    this is such a neat poem

    meg


  • echo-ink
    November 11, 2008

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    Amera,
    This was lovely, as are all your writes.
    Have you ever seen the movie, The Butterfly Effect?

    Good luck in the contest.
    Love, bell xx


  • Rovingone gold member
    November 11, 2008

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    The poem is beautiful and the way it talks to the reader describes the butterfly effect in a way that anyone could understand it. Still, every time I see those words it echos back to the Ray Bradbury story, Thunderclap.


  • JustinReid
    November 11, 2008
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    I knew your were an inner weather geek. Your Galadriel personality was just a mask. Nice Poem


  • Life is a Beach gold member
    November 11, 2008

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    I love this. And the idea of the ripple effect in life has always fascinated me.
    This is my favorite stanza:
    Never think your actions are small
    for the ripples can change all things.
    Remember the butterfly’s call
    from tiny diaphanous wings.
    I totally believe that our words and behaviors can change things in a ripple effect for sure! Pam


  • Faeryn
    November 11, 2008

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    Oh my...now I really wish I didn't read the author notes; they were quite confusing. lol
    I love the poem!! The third stanza is really inspiring; I'm liking the idea that something so small can change so much.
    Love,
    Tay


  • MJ Donnelly gold member
    November 11, 2008

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    Loved this Amera, absolutely brilliant. I also enjoyed you author notes, and believe me, that theory has much credence!


  • Have left the stage gold member
    November 11, 2008

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    The butterfly effect is an astronomical movement of its contents, and she is verily much like god-like, though I would say that using the earthly or human perspective, natures laws follow similar patterns, but it only takes a smidgeon of difference to knock it off track, therefore similating a trajectory which is mentioned, and the said verse, "Never think your actions are small
    for the ripples can change all things.
    Remember the butterfly’s call
    from tiny diaphanous wings", is the exponent to all complexities, and the resulting victors from it.


  • cricketjeff gold member
    November 11, 2008

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    A delicious and beautifully poetic portrayal of "the butterfly effect" the mathematics of chaos is fascinating and the imagery and metaphor used to describe it links two very different worlds, of the scientist and the poet.
    Great stuff!

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