Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

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

frogs plop in water
 faster than my eye can see:
  a blur — kerplunk!

a mighty river 
 makes the mighty city
  dwarven by compare.

sun sets behind trees,
 hiding a city in woodland 
  silhouette.

this odd little shrub
 grows snails like seed pods:
  or so it seems.

from lush green hills,
 the city is painted
  in hazy blue-gray.

cool, idyllic day:
 summer rallies a last stand,
  before the Fall.

twin butterflies 
 spiral around each other
  with spastic gravity.

diligent spider 
 works its catch
  into a meal.

in stillness,
 the mantis becomes
  vegetation.