Like a ribbon of verdant grass
curled around my finger
I remember my youth of
running barefoot through the grass
and clover chasing the flight of
butterflies over Okanagan air
like the wind whispering love
to the tail of a dancing kite
pale sulfur sails panel the blue
as long crooked legs come alight
upon a lilac that coats the air
wafting my imagination like
spotted palms fanning a throne
staring back with wide black eyes
oh to yearn, to reach, to touch,
would be to burst a rainbow
floating full of blown soap bubbles
with the soft prick of a new Peace
Rose its soft white, blushing cheeks
warm to the words of a child
who wished he too could fly away
vanish in a cocoon of metamorphosis
and awaken to the satiating promise
of a garden moving with summer dill.

∞

Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo).
Today’s prompt: write a poem about an animal. If you’d like to take a look at some other poems for inspiration, you might like James Dickey’s “The Dusk of Horses,” or Tennyson’s “The Eagle.”