Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

sunlight shines
 through the butterfly's wing:
  yet, it seems sluggish.

bee-eater sits still --
 not searching, not flitting:
  worried of bee's plight?

a still dragonfly 
 looks perched & ready,
  but then falls dead.

a plain, green plant
 crawls with bees-o-plenty: 
  despite no bright blooms.

lurch & stop:
 the bee moves erratically
  amid yellow blooms.

one butterfly:
 with so many eyes 
  that cannot see.

a stag beetle
 lifts pincers in warning;
  tender flesh at feet.

a bee hovers
 between two wildflowers,
  in a quandary.

flowers dip
 under a bee’s weight, 
  but spring back.

twin butterflies 
 spiral around each other
  with spastic gravity.