Title: Frost-Flowers
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Fragile
Other prompt: n/a
Rating: G
Length: 109
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zhie for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Frost-flowers are fragile. A haiku and a drabble.



Frost-flowers blossom
Brief and intricate wonder
Manwë's winter breath

Frost-flowers are fragile. Spider-silk lace, spun-sugar flourishes on a sweet-course sotelty. A moment may be fragile, a feeling, an accord, a peace, a process, an illusion, an understanding, a thread of thought, a whisper of song. Delicate things may be fragile, and fragile things may be delicate, but they are not the same property, any more than brittle is equivalent to either. A thing, idea, quality, person may be breakable, but that does not mean they are broken, have been broken, will be broken. It means one should be advertent, careful, aware. Appreciate the paradox of fragility that nevertheless endures.