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  • Re: PPB: Advice to a Butterfly / Maxwell Bodenheim

    From georgedance04@georgedance04@yahoo-dot-ca.no-spam.invalid (George J. Dance) to alt.poetry on Fri Dec 12 12:04:03 2025
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    George J. Dance wrote:
    Advice to a Butterfly, by Maxwell Bodenheim

    Aimless petal of the wind,
    Spinning gently weird circles,
    To the flowers underneath
    You are a drunken king of motion
    [...]

    https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2018/06/advice-to-butterfly-maxwell-bodenheim.html



    My thanks to JLA Forums for bumping this to my attention, just because
    I used the word "advice" in a subject header.

    Bodenheim is one of the original poets of the free verse movement, who too sadly was crowded out, died in poverty, and is now forgotten. Bringing back his poetry for a new generation is one of the things that makes all of the work I do on PPB worthwhile.


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  • From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) to alt.poetry on Fri Dec 26 19:21:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.poetry

    George J. Dance wrote:

    George J. Dance wrote:
    Advice to a Butterfly, by Maxwell Bodenheim

    Aimless petal of the wind,
    Spinning gently weird circles,
    To the flowers underneath
    You are a drunken king of motion
    [...]

    https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2018/06/advice-to-butterfly-maxwell-bodenheim.html


    My thanks to JLA Forums for bumping this to my attention, just because
    I used the word "advice" in a subject header.

    Bodenheim is one of the original poets of the free verse movement, who too sadly was crowded out, died in poverty, and is now forgotten. Bringing back his
    poetry for a new generation is one of the things that makes all of the work I do on PPB worthwhile.



    I overlooked this one twice, glad to see this free verse pioneer again in the spotlight.


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