Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

the russet percher:
its look says "fast flyer," but 
its name says "good sitter"

a butterfly lands;
unmoved by wind or leaf sway,
but point a camera…

cornstalk beetle 
bigger around than the stalk:
bad at hide-n-seek

a dragonfly lands
on a lotus seed head
without making sway

two butterflies
stand their ground on the path,
despite footfall quakes

two red bugs mate
on one side of a tree;
on the other: orgy

a wasp & an ant
converge on a cloying plant
blithe on each other

the dragonfly
is still, and I wonder
whether it's dead,
and further wonder whether
anyone has thought that of me

the moth is still. 
is it alive or dead?
how patient am i?

a great wall stands
between a cricket and
the food it seeks