Butterfly Love

Author's Note: I wrote this piece because as I was looking through my list of things I could write about, I chose butterflies. But, I wanted it to be an informational piece while still being elegant. I combined those two factor to get a one-of-a-kind poem.


Their lovely wings
Beat so lightly
Yet just enough
To get up off the ground

Their pretty colors
On their wings
Can tell you
Who they are

Their predators move away
Whenever
Their pretty colors show

Their long tongues
Help them eat the food
And sniff out milkweed
To lay their eggs on

Their eggs hatch
Into caterpillars
And the caterpillars grow
Into another butterfly