Frozen Butterflies Poem by Alan Strand

Watery cocoons
Save themselves from fleeting deaths…
Floating down to die

Die a quiet death
A billion times over now…
Gentle icy gems

Black icy skies shed
Those pesky little snow pests…
Blanketing the earth

Mother Earth wears her coat
Of freshly fallen powder…
Snow angels will come

Feathery snow flakes
Flit and float, spiraling down…
Silent winter night

Soft and silent stars
Falling from high in the sky…
Frozen butterflies

Water cocoons splash
As frozen air warms again…
Metamorphosis!

(Seven sequential Haiku for you,1999/02/08)