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Boundless: Spring Dance Concert. May 4, 2022. Jesse Scheve/Missouri State University Creative Services
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A Flutter Forward
Fluttering from flower to flower, a butterfly’s beauty and boundless freedom attracts attention to its flight and to the wonder of its colors, stained-glass-looking scales signaling poison to predators. Floating on the wind as if fairies dancing in the shimmering sunshine to mesmerize the mind in the moment, an escape from the errands of the everyday, a chance to accept that slowing down saves our souls.
The flutter of color forces us forward, forgetting the beauty’s beginnings— a fixed egg on leaf hatches as larvae, a caterpillar crunching and munching then spinning a silk chrysalis whose inside creates creased wings that unfold to dry and fly from flower to flower in beauty of boundless freedom of flight and fancy.
Is the lesson that our beauty belongs to surviving our struggles, freeing our futures from our past?
Butterfly
Forward flutters wings
a colorful dance freed from
hanging chrysalis
Sheri Edwards
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Poetry/Photography
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This is a mixed media collage on canvas. I painted and drew the flowers and combined them with vintage and found objects.