Just look at you!
All dainty and glittering
like a bubble bath.
You look familiar...
Haven't I seen you somewhere?
Was it on the list of Insects People Like?
What they don't know
is what an unerring hunter you are,
such a voracious aerial predator are you.
There you go...
Plotting your course like the ancient mariner
able to snatch your target in midair
focused singly on your prey amid a cloud of fluttering fraternity
brothers
attacking your lone target from the chaotic swarm.
Glutton...
Wolfishly consuming, tearing up your kill and mashing it into a
single glob.
Munch, munch, munch...
a wad of snuff for your mouth.
Bantam creature
Bottomless appetite
Not one for much smelling or pheromonal flirtations.
Not you.
Who knew?
Gilled predator, you hatch from an egg;
Hydrojet through water in search of aquatic prey.
Until...
you are ready to spread your wings and take your hunt to the sky.
Wow, I never thought of a dragonfly in such a predatory manner before. Gorgeous verse.
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