Leanne Panjer
About this Christian Poet:
Leanne Panjer lives in Calgary, Alberta. She gave herself permission to seriously pursue writing four years ago, and has finally found what makes her profoundly happy. The poem "Metamorphosis" was written for a dear friend whose daughter will probably not survive a cocaine addiction. Put any face or name on the butterfly or shadow and you have a picture of the horrible seduction of evil over our world.
Metamorphosis
Sun singes
translucent wings
naively riding currents
of butterfly breezes
Pursuing clouds
flirting with drafts
she flits across
his shadow
Dark fingers
touch her passage
rubbing away the powder of flight
with darker intent
Spiraling to earth
inside the flutter of fractured color
she lies exposed
Leaving the wings
he gathers the body
steals her soul
noiselssly
imprisons it
in the hush
of a cocoon.
Copyright©2004 by Leanne Panjer