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Miracle Soup

A wanky poem

By L.C. SchäferPublished 6 months ago Updated 6 months ago 2 min read
Miracle Soup
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When you look at a butterfly Her delicate wings fluttering with bright colours Do you forget that miracle doesn't just mean lucky

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L.C. Schäfer

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  • Pamela Williams6 months ago

    This piece touches my innermost pain and sadness. We're not alone in this, are we?

  • Rob Angeli2 years ago

    Wow, a really stunning metamorphoses, love the way the motherhood metaphor is integrated. I see the form of the chrysalis in the spill of the lines, so lovely.

  • Test2 years ago

    L.C. this was so beautifully written! I love the reminder that you never know what's going on below the surface! That people always praise what they see and not the work that went into the transformation! Very insightfully written!

  • Leslie Writes2 years ago

    Oh wow! Gut punch! I love it!

  • Wow!

  • Kristen Balyeat2 years ago

    Wow, this is really gorgeous, L.C.! I think about this analogy all the time, and you have penned (typed) it so perfectly. Such vivid imagery here. A lot to sit with. Wonderful job!

  • Dana Crandell2 years ago

    This is hard truth, beautifully expressed. We never question, or worse, tend to forget the price paid for miracles, and the caterpillar to butterfly transformation is the perfect analogy. Well done, LC!

  • A great take on the challenge, wonderful words

  • Babs Iverson2 years ago

    Loving those gossamer lines!!! Beautifully written!!!❤️❤️💕

  • Ah, everything does come with a price. The bitter truth of life. Loved this powerful poem!

  • So powerful and very well done! Especially your last stanza. I love that our conversation continued this way!!!! ❤️✨🙏

  • Thavien Yliaster2 years ago

    Mmmmm... butterfly soup. Now I wonder if that's a cuisine in some part of the world. Imagine three types of soup: caterpillar soup, transformational soup, and butterfly soup. Now, on a more serious note You are right about how some miracles need to go through painful, excruciating, changes. There is nothing gained without something being given. An athlete has to be disciplined in diet, regime, and training. A scholar must be disciplined in being well researched. A writer must be disciplined in putting pen to paper from that which emerges from their mind, much like an engineer does to. In order for magnificent changes, time and effort must take place. From the landscape and weather cycles that shaped our planet, to the development of a newly formed life, to the changing of one's habits into a lifestyle.

  • Tiffany Gordon2 years ago

    Powerful!

  • Mother Combs2 years ago

    love this

  • Beautiful butterfly poem! And relatable! We’ve all been broken! Great poem!

  • I love this line so much “ Do you forget that miracle doesn't just mean lucky” it’s just so beautiful. Like wow. This whole poem. Like wow.

  • Kenny Penn2 years ago

    I felt this one down to my bones. Excellent poem, LC

  • Joelle E N2 years ago

    This is such a good one LC :)

  • Sid Aaron Hirji2 years ago

    I can see a possible top story here

  • Rene Peters2 years ago

    Love this! It is a good reminder that stuff doesn't come easy and it takes effort (at least that's what my concussed brain got from it 😅).

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