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Bethany-Devi Day, the day equidistant between our respective birthdays, is tomorrow. I thought I would celebrate early by posting our traditional poem today. Every year Bethany and I agree on a poetic style and write each other a poem. This year’s style is the Elizabethan Sonnet.

Happy Bethany-Devi Day! Enjoy.

Stars and Butterflies

by Devi Bengfort

The winds of hope and change have swept us all

New starts, new lives, new cities new roommates

The summers happy past now change to fall

Old lives surrender bravely to new fates

 

Yet change demands Polaris’ stable light

Each axis twirling has its guiding star

one finds in friendship strength and fam’ly might

On branch does chrys’lis find its fortress tower

 

Blood flows but also sticks, a sturdy bridge

Unchanging star guides sailors safely home

To branch the butterflies owe courage

the central axis constant e’er they roam

 

Let’s be each other’s star when lost at sea

When you’re the butterfly, a branch I’ll be.