*Sorry, using prompt as excuse to talk about one of my favourite insects…!*

As old as time, Odonata.

Not magical,

just a born survivor.

Aerial expert,

I’m a helicopter.

Weaving and diving.

Surviving, dare I say thriving?

Incomplete metamorphosis

eating power,

like a hippopotamus

A conjurer of tall order.

Molting, changing,

Physical recorder.

Nymph-like, a damsel

In distress.

Water,

faster.

D i s s a p e a r i n g

Losing my

space,

Total disaster.

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Nearly a fifth of the world’s dragonflies and damselflies are at risk of extinction:

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/dragonflies-extinction-wetlands-damselfly-iucn-b1973016.html