Dragonfly

You dart and weave
Flashing your jeweled body.
Are you
A pixie?
A fairy?
Do you paint the flowers
And grow the trees?
You fly through the meadow and skim the ponds
Dragonfly,
Dragonfly
Iridescent poet of the sky.

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Jack Conlon, age 14
Palmetto, Florida
Booker Middle School
Teacher: Joanna Hapner