Chrysalis Spills

I fought with this one.. The illustration bounced from too "pretty butterfly" to too dark and grainy like a nine inch nails album cover. Light, Dark, Light, Dark - hopefully I now have the balance of "glory BUT earned" right...

From the Sovereigns of the Seasons collection 

Chrysalis Spills
Caterpillar crawls, graceless growth 
Syncopated steps on the leaf. 
Chew knowledge to churning broth 
Slurp, bite, jig, saw belief. 

Green leaves, glutton's libraries 
Transcendent blue, visceral red 
Midpoint. Conflicted contemporaries 
Called to oneness or coerced. 

Clashes paint a green horizon. 
Bites break slower, something shifts 
Echoing yell, on green, alone. 
Grey horizon, dulls and drifts. 

Shell builds, woven cocoon, 
Silken outward composure. 
Red ricochets, blue booms 
In rising osmotic pressure. 

Shattered green, midpoint collapse, 
Cardinal colours reclaiming station. 
A psychic, pulmonary lapse. 
Serene shocks enforce evolution. 

Chrysalis spills palette wings, 
Accepted chaos, disparate unity. 
Green jailer, broken sting. 
Agnostic flights of liberty.

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Thank you for your time as always
Graeme

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