Jim Yerman - The Butterfly

Today is ‘Learn About Butterflies Day’ an insect we’d all love to hug
So I offer up this little limerick in honor of that beautiful bug.
I know it’s 3-14 and I should turn my attention to that mathematical constant Pi
But I choose instead to focus on the unpredictable butterfly:

From egg, larva, pupa to adult
The metamorphosis of a butterfly I now exult.
Yes down through the ages
They’ve encountered these stages
With such astonishing and beautiful results.

For mere beauty nothing in nature can beat them.
If they had cell phones we’d all want to tweet them.
Though their beauty’s diverse
It is also a curse
Because both frogs and birds like to eat them.

But here’s something I think long overdue.
And I now bring the question to you.
Shouldn’t that divine butterfly
Be called Flutterby
After all, isn’t that what they do?

Jim Yerman

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