Monarch, Hummingbird

These, among nature's inventory of creation
are marvels of spectacular beauty and
exquisite frailty. Yet nature endowed them
with an astounding capacity to endure
and to migrate seasonally travelling
thousands of miles in their journeys
despite perceived frailty and minuscule
dimensions. As the filaments spun by a
spider have amazing tensile strength so
too does the ingrained aptitude of the
butterfly and the most perfect of the
avian specimens endowed by nature in
its distinctive backward-forward hovering
in the beating of its tiny wings, beak
immersed in the trumpet throat of a
flower the perfect pairing of beauty; the
bleeding hearts offering up their nectar.
A symbiosis of offering and collecting.
The Monarch, truly queen of all her
tribe cloaked in royal hues of the sun
blazes her orange-specked wings in a
scintillating swoop through the air to
settle graciously on the bright pink throne
of the coneflower, nature's gifts to her
very most special creatures as they prepare
to embark on journeys escaping winter
ravages, tiny forms crowding the sky.