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Swallowtail Encounter<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As I drove along, I spot her<\/p>\n Floating, yellow and black spotted<\/p>\n wings spread apart,<\/p>\n riding the soft breeze<\/p>\n until she rests for a moment<\/p>\n among roadside blooms.<\/p>\n One moment, then frantic flitting<\/p>\n from flower to flower<\/p>\n wings pull and push air<\/p>\n like a crewman’s race oars<\/p>\n going upstream.<\/p>\n I marvel at her energy<\/p>\n as she collects and carries pollen<\/p>\n beauty in her every moment.<\/p>\n Brightening her corner of<\/p>\n this asphalt country Carolina lane.<\/p>\n I have pulled over to watch her.<\/p>\n She continues her frolic, her<\/p>\n feisty dance on her petal stage<\/p>\n then, dipping her<\/p>\n wings as if to salute me,<\/p>\n takes off across the field<\/p>\n searching for another<\/p>\n batch of blooms.<\/p>\n I drive on, smiling.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As soon as I heard the jig, I began to serach in my files for a poem I began and could never finish\u2014the music was the key to finishing ti\u2014so here it is\u2014if using parts of an older poem disqualifies this, then I also offer the short poem below<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dancing from bloom to bloom<\/p>\n Swallowtail offers her<\/p>\n Yellow and black wings<\/p>\n As contrast to the bright<\/p>\n Blue cloudless sky<\/p>\n And the array of \u00a0purple<\/p>\n Mexican petunias. She flits<\/p>\n From bloom to bloom,<\/p>\n Tapping her delicate toes<\/p>\n Into the pollen, Some for her<\/p>\n And some for the next plant<\/p>\n On her stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Swallowtail Encounter As I drove along, I spot her Floating, yellow and black spotted wings spread apart, riding the soft breeze until she rests for a moment among roadside blooms. One moment, then frantic flitting from flower to flower wings pull and push…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38163,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991\/revisions\/38163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}