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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1921)	2/26/2000 9:12:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2095

Butterfly I always liked the French word papillon- it seemed to float off at the end On a small breeze of its own creation. You hear it flutter and fade. So I looked to see What the Germans did. They spit it- Schmetterling Butterflies wearing heavy boots. Pinned to the ground with consonants. The operatic Italians roll it-farfalla, A bel canto aria, lifting it at the last minute And wafting it up and away. But English is my favorite- most picturesque of all- Butterfly.