{"id":1898,"date":"2025-04-03T01:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/buoyant-butterfly-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T01:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:49:31","slug":"buoyant-butterfly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/buoyant-butterfly-2\/","title":{"rendered":"buoyant butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

a butterfly flutters past my window.
\nhard to imagine it was once a caterpillar.<\/p>\n

hard to imagine a butterfly was once a
\nstrange-looking insect like that.<\/p>\n

amazing the transformative power
\nof nature <\/p>\n

except how it has transformed me
\nfrom a virile young stallion to a dried
\nup old nag.<\/p>\n

I would like to be as buoyant as a butterfly
\nbut those days are gone for me.<\/p>\n

Now the only buoyancy I can attain
\nis the freedom of my impending death<\/p>\n

when like the earthbound caterpillar that
\ntransforms into the radiant butterfly,
\nthis earth-cocooned body will be reborn
\ninto the freedom of a buoyant, beautiful spirit.<\/p>\n

Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a butterfly flutters past my window. hard to imagine it was once a caterpillar. hard to imagine a butterfly was once a strange-looking insect like that. amazing the transformative power of nature except how it has transformed me from a virile young stallion to a dried up old nag. I would like to be as… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}