Butterfly poetry collection
Patience and Impatience: Verses of Waiting and Urgency
A varied collection of poems gathered around this subject, with space for different voices, images, and moods.
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Comparisons
Steady and Hasty:
Patience is steady, calm and sure,
Impatience hasty, hard to endure.
One waits with a peaceful heart,
The other rushes, tearing apart.
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Calm and Rushed:
Patience is calm, a gentle breeze,
Impatience rushed, never at ease.
One breathes with a steady pace,
The other runs, a frantic race.
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Enduring and Eager:
Patience endures, with quiet might,
Impatience eager, day and night.
One perseveres, strong and true,
The other demands, what to do?
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Calm and Restless:
Patience is calm, a steady hand,
Impatience restless, demand.
One waits with a gentle grace,
The other pushes, quicken pace.
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Endurance and Haste:
Patience is endurance, time's friend,
Impatience haste, quick to end.
One breathes deep, taking in stride,
The other rushes, no place to hide.
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The Waiting Game:
Patience, calm with time to spare,
Impatience, restless in the air.
Patience, waits with steady heart,
Impatience, tears the time apart.
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Patience builds with every day,
Impatience, rushes dreams away.
Both together, teach us well,
In their balance, futures tell.
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