Butterfly

A haiku — prompt ‘butterfly’

Illustration by Cynthia Marinakos

Playful butterfly
Deceptively beautiful
Predators beware

About haiku
A haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. It’s made up of 3 unrhymed lines with 17 syllables, 5–7–5.

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