General Poetry posted July 13, 2025


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LJButterfly~ pen name cause the butterfly changes often

A Butterfly Birthday

by Debi Pick Marquette



Her real name is Lorraine; her pen name's LJButterfly

 So many career changes, that's how she'd identify


She's Philly born and raised, where she and sisters loved to sing

And now those memories are what her birthday seems to bring 


At funeral home party she'd meet the love of her life

November will be 60 years they've been husband and wife


Their daughter visits Christmas and a week for Mother's Day

'Cause she lives in another state so very far away


Lorraine worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs

And she would help so many, and for them she would say prayers


Congressional Liaison, counselor fed agency

She retired after thirty years, with a new place to be


They changed their lives as both became teachers in Delaware 

In high prestigious school she taught the Biden's grandkids there


They moved to Florida when they retired a second time

This reinvention move is last, important and sublime


Lorraine came to fanstory 2020 Covid rage

As we absorb her writing it keeps flying off the page


I call her an earth angel for the kindness that she shows

Her sweet humility is why she's loved by all she knows 


We wish Lorraine the Happiest Birthday that there could be

It's sent with love from all of her FanStory family


This poem should answer anyone who ever wonders why 

Lorraine's that special woman we call LJButterfly
 



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July
2025


To learn more about Lorraine's meeting with her husband at a party in a funeral parlor, read her story called, "Dancing with the Dead."

If you would like a tribute/birthday poem written, (makes no difference if you had one already or not) please PM me and let me know the date. I would be happy to do one for you or for one of your loved ones
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