NaPoWriMo Day 4: The prompt is to write about an example of an extraordinary feat of nature, from The Strangest Things in The World. I chose to write about the Blue Moonwort flower, which tunnels its way up through inches of ice to reach the sunlight above.

How impossible you are, little snowbell; your

delicate head bulldozing through solid ice. 

Nothing to see here: just your sassy self,

tunnelling up to the light towards your

relentless survival. Beneath the silent ground

a fury of combustion is taking place,

a subterranean tussle for ascendancy.

You blaze in your quest for life,

pushing upwards with dogged certainty

before your final, glorious exit into sunshine.

You are astonishing.

An evolutionary grand-slam.  If you can

do this, then what’s insurmountable?