She tells me to hurry.
It was "flitting about
like a butterfly"
When I fetch the camera
it is on the ground
by the watering can.
Hurriedly snapping. Focus on auto.
No hint
of skills.
Waves of its feelers - it finds the green
bush. And
is gon
ps - Length of 'The Big Green Thing': from nose to tail about 10 to 12 cms.
The big Green thing....what if everything new and strange to us could get such loving attention!!! He isn't very pretty, but then again, not many of us are.
ReplyDeleteI loved that, Gwil, you are quick with the camera and quick with your poetical skills!!!
He's somewhere in the ivy bush. Hiding. Thinking. Biding his time. As they do. There's a small one around here somewhere. An off-spring it could be.
Delete__ A life, photo caught before the end of its natural value; nifty Gwilym. _m
ReplyDeletememories
forever on this paper
legacy
I hope I don't have nightmares. Last night there were bats circling the street lamp. It's getting very Hitchcockian.
DeleteI like Taigu Roykan's quote from your other blog.
Delete__ In my eye it says, selfism hasn't changed from then to the now... and wont, into the tomorrows. Technology has.
Smiles! _m
street lamp
lures the night flies
bat bait
It's an odd thing. Our old street lamps didn't lure anything.
DeleteIt's got a very elongated leg or two or more.
ReplyDeleteThe knees look metallic. Perhaps it's a drone ;)
DeleteWell you can keep it over there Gwil - I don't wish to see it in my garden.
ReplyDeleteThat's telling me.
DeleteIt's a grasshopper, and the long thing at the back looks like an ovipositor to me- used for laying eggs, so that would make it a female grasshopper. Nice poem :o).
ReplyDeleteJust looked more closely at the enlarged photo and it's a cricket, not a grasshopper (the long antennae are the giveaway)
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