Wild Butterflies: Feelings of Ambrosia or Bitter Truth

By Esther Mohammed

A smell, a taste, a sound has evoked that fluttery feelings in your stomach. There it is, real, but incomprehensible. Feelings that lay down deep and undigested. That tingling safe smell of warm tenderness rages to get out, or chooses to be undisturbed. Dont be encumbered, be aware. Wisdom is projection into your tummy butterflies, peering into the details you can be aware off. Be conscious of your feelings and it is a stepping stone of understanding the morbidly tense or untainted swelling emotion that flutter like the wings of the Butterfly. Taste the nectar it can be bitter or sweet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499022896

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Contents

Section 1

Passing Summer Showers

Bonded

Figure of Speech

Warm Fuzzies

Against All Odds

Caught in a Blizzard

Peace Evaporates

Forfeiting Thoughts

The Light from the Wick

Felicity

Point of No Return

Migration

Stupendous Overtaking

Forest Sounds

Passing Summer Showers

Section 2

Feelings of Ambrosia or Bitter Truth

Sweet Smelling Mornings

Sparkly Yellow Dress

The Red

The Note

Forgiveness

Dropped

Unselfish Loyalty

Entitled

Marigold

It Is Time To Leave

Fortune Of The Bloods

Like Mothers, Like Daughters

Trip To The Grocery Store

Bitter Roses

Life’s Tumultuous Sea

Ambrosia

Section 3

The Fight or Flight Moment

Internal Mischance

The Unseen

No Forthcoming

Transition

Sitting Duck

Customize

The Foresight

Monument City

News-times

Blue Moods

A Cold Night

Playing with Fire

The Beauty of My Red Ranch

Harvest Paradise

Port

Seaside

Puzzled

Left Broken

Springboard

Why?

Tea Time

Undesirable Feature

Infected Genes

The How Come Spirit

Shades of Gray

Plethora

Tribulation

The Father

Compelling Dread

Life in a Wine Cradle

Importune

Progenitor

Patriarch

The Fight or Flight Moment

Section 4

Wild Butterflies

Hole in My Heart

Tummy Butterfly

Everything in a Flash

Dining Alone

The Citadel

Lust Away in Tobago

Once upon a Princess

A Tidal Current0

Senseless Folly1

Looking Out My Bay Window in Newtown, Connecticut2

Learning to Ride a Bicycle5

Deep Country Woods8

Encounter at Kindergarten1

Falling from on High the Getaway4

Wild Butterflies7

Admiration for Esther Mohammed’s Poetry

Sweet Smelling Mornings

Each of the sections, Awakening, Passing Summer Showers, and Forest Sounds, consists of about ten poems that work together to describe different aspects of a sweet smelling morning, and the three parts also seem to suggest a kind of triad of beginning, transition, and moving outside, in terms of how a morning could be sequenced. I think the structure works quite well since the poems try to differentiate between different aspects of love and relationships (their newness, their oldness, the passing problems that arise, and the occurrence of unexpected events).

—Editorial Letter

The theme of the poems is the experience and everyday life of love. Most of the poems deal with love and the losses that come along with it and how our lives can reflect the freshness and vitality of these experiences. The poems are successful when they achieve a balance between general, abstract reflections on the nature of love and details of the natural world (the trees, the sky, flowers) that are observed.

—Erin, CreateSpace Editor

The Celebration of Life

In memory of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Victims

December 2012

These pages capture the deep feelings of the author in her weakest moments yet also show her ability to look at life for its beauty and the love that it brings. The lives that were lost are celebrated in poems and a sing-along song of hope. A wonderful keepsake for the families of those who lost their lives at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012

—Leah Larssen

Editor and mother of two

This collection of poems includes many thoughtful meditations on the precariousness of life following tragedy and includes both national or collective tragedy (the Newtown shootings) and personal or individual tragedy as its subject matter. The book tells many stories about these different experiences, but a voice of hope and courage remains present throughout, providing the book with a sense of cohesiveness.

—Editorial Letter

There are several different narrating voices in the collection. Many of the poems are presented from the perspective of an observer of the town of Newtown after this tragedy, but there are also some that present flashbacks to childhood in the figure of a female (Marigold, for example) and in the figure of a male (The Note). This juxtaposition is provocative, given that the subject of the adult reflections is the death of the twenty-six mentioned throughout. The childhood reflections, or poems that take on the perspective of the child, seem consistent with the perspective of the adult poetic