Unveiling of the Butterfly
Welcome to my poetry and prose blog, Stained Monochrome Wings.
I am uploading most poems I have written, excluding many pieces of poetry that were regrettably destroyed in 2008-2010. I continue to write poetry now and hope to release a complete collection since I have written enough material to do so.
My blog is broken up into five sections and is currently expanding. The current categories include: The Worm, The Chrysalis, The Butterfly, The Webs, The Escape, and The Death. Each category is symbolic of the emotional and psychological phases of my life.
The Worm is symbolic of when I was a weak middle-school kid, the chrysalis is symbolic of my transformation from the transition into high school, the butterfly is what ruined, imperfect person I have become as a result of my hardships, the Webs include pieces that are about my falling out of my butterfly phase, The Escape is when I’m finally able to, once again, recover and relapse back into the butterfly phase, and The Death is the dying of a tainted butterfly.
Welcome to my blog, let us begin.
Reworking Project
This project is currently being completely reworked.
I have rewritten, edited, added to, and scrapped poetry from my already-existing collection on Tumblr (http://stained-monochrome-wings.tumblr.com), as well as shifted poems/prose into different and more appropriate categories.
In the future, I will be focusing more on adding prose to this collection, as the Tumblr blog really lacks original prose. There will also be more side project that I will publish as this website is live, so check back frequently for updates.
About the Author
Aubrey Shirley is a 21-year-old gender-neutral person living in Las Vegas. They started writing at the age of nine (not anything particularly intricate or even good), and continued writing poetry throughout their entire life. In addition to writing in their spare time, Aubrey has published articles in two small newspapers, for their high school newspaper (2009-13), The Mountain Lion Messenger, and in their college newspaper (2013-14), The Rebel Yell.
Aubrey publishes works about the problems that the Las Vegas youth see daily into in a large, unforgiving, drug and sex-riddled city.
