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Prompt Card: A butterfly as a villain.

Word Cards: Glimmering, Whirlwind (You only need to choose one word to use)

Wild Card: Constraint: Two lines in your poem must either use only one-syllable words or no one-syllable words.

How doth the little crocodile
improve his shining tail,
and pour the waters of the Nile
on every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
how neatly spreads his claws,
and welcomes little fishes in,
with gently smiling jaws!

Lewis Carroll

which parodied

How doth the little busy bee
improve each shining hour,
and gather honey all the day
from every opening flower!

How skilfully she builds her cell!
How neat she spreads the wax!
And labors hard to store it well
with the sweet food she makes.

In works of labor or of skill,
I would be busy too;
for Satan finds some mischief still
for idle hands to do.

In books, or work, or healthful play,
let my first years be passed,
that I may give for every day
some good account at last.

Isaac Watts