“Snowflake”

Bradley
Northern Lights ABC School
Anchorage County, Alaska

"Snowflake" by Bradley 2016 7GP 7th Grade Poet Laureate Northern Lights ABC School Anchorage County, Alaska Read the poems of every 2016 winner at www.7gp.org. The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP) is transforming young lives and their classrooms through writing. We provide free school-based poetry contests to every 7th grade student, in every type of school, in every community.

A feeble winter butterfly
fluttering in the world above
so delicate and thy heart
is frozen and forged from ice
but if I embrace it,
she will disintegrate and cease to exist.