Showing posts with label Purpose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purpose. Show all posts

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Moonflower & Moth









In a wildflower garden
there lived a cocooned creature
who hatched, grew tall,
and produced feet, 6 in all.


And wings,
oh such wings.
But who can fly
when you've only been taught to crawl?


The butterflies were beautiful,
floating from marigolds to phlox,
but she was no butterfly—
she’d heard them talk.


So she waited,
said creature,
for the last quarter moon,
and then whispered to it, “what must I do?”


The moon answered
with glitter and white
when on the moonflower
it shone its light—


she knew then she was made
just right;
some things are meant
to temper the night.



© 2013 Jennifer Wagner




At dVerse Poetics we are writing poems for kids.  I went with message and the natural world.  Moonflowers pop open at night and are pollinated by moths.