Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from cocoon made by the larvae of the silkworms. Every silkworm can spin about 1 km of silk fiber in three days or so. This silk forms the cocoon that protects a silkworm before it'll become a moth. Sadly, humans don't let silkworms to become moths by putting the cocoons into boiling water to prevent silk from the damage of moths getting out of cocoons and partly destroying them.
My son has a school project of observing silkworms becoming moths, I've been taking care of these creations for three weeks already, they're quite interesting little fellows - responding to loud noises, strong smells and eating enormous amounts of leaves))))
Observing them made me write this Haiku, I'm glad that our guys will have a chance to grow their wings.
The haiku is inspired by Haiku Saturday Initiative of
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