No one would ever mistake Muhammad Ali for a butterfly or a honeybee. And yet poetry uses metaphor to show us how they are connected and what they have in common. Try it yourself.

Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance uses Pavel Friedmann’s “The Butterfly” poem to guide their annual Ride 2 Remember benefit Every butterfly that is painted regains a voice for a lost child ...

A poem can be a sturdy bridge that leads the way from me to you. ∘ A poem can be a zoom, a room, a bloom, a bridge, a boom, a zing. A poem can be just like me, too. We both can be so many things.