butterfly moment

Gold cherry

By Di_Hard

Sat, 30 Apr 2022
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31 comments
 

truants of moonlight 

soft as forgetting 

wings, pale, delicate 

flicker in arcs

then fold, as hair-fine

feet cling, taste star white

wild garlic flowers

low by the path, both

blessed by sun's release

and I, finding peace

 

 

this photo was found on Wikimedia :www.jenseitsderfenster.de/2015/05/23/festungsruine-hohentwiel/ [#Nature ,#Macro ,#Flower ,#Close up ,#Garlic ,#Singen ,#Hohentwiel ,#Wild Garlic]

 

While looking up if butterflies have feet, found that, as their proboscis doesn't have taste buds, they taste through their feet!

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Is it the moths with the beautiful star garlic flowers. Peace in noticing these beautiful things. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Hi Rhiannon :0) Thankyou for reading and commenting. am not sure, to be honest - I think they were "green veined white butterflies"  I am feeling incredibly pleased with myself for having learned how to upload photos (though really if anyone should feel pleased with themselves it is my partner for having the patience to go over it again and again and again :0) If I can still do it next week, might try asking how to upload several at once,then could try putting a picture of the butterfly, too as there were lots of photos of them on Wikimedia but not on garlic flowers.Wish I could take phots as wonderful as yours!

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I noticed you had uploaded a photo for the first time. Are Wikimedia photos free of copyright? I must look up those butterfiles you mention anyway. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Er, I think if it says Public Domain. I hope it is OK if I put who they are

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

If it says public domain I think it's fine too - what a wonderful poem, and a VERY big well done for mastering photo uploading! (beautiful pic btw). I had no idea that butterflies tasted through their feet - how fascinating! Thank you so much for this poem

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

This one wasn't though! It said " Creative Commons Attribution 3.0" and when I clicked MORE DETAILS

 

You are free:

to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

 

 

So I cut an pasted who had done it? Is that ok?

 

This is the web page :https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=wild+garlic&title=Speci...

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Yes that's absolutely fine di. You've credited the owner of the image as required.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

PHEW :0) Thankyou somuch for coming back to say that!!!

 

This is a link to butterfly feet. And other bits

https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/rspb-england/posts/do-butterflie...

 

Submitted by catherine poarch on

As usual, beautiful. It's as flickering and entancing as its subject matter. I liked how you connected yourself with them at the end. smiley

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Hi Catherine, it's lovely to hear from you :0) I hope you are having a good weekend. Thankyou so much for reading and your lovely comment, am very glad you mentioned the end bit, it seemed a bit clangyso is reassuring you liked it!

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

your poem shows the beauty of these delicate butterflies, and their fragile world. Isn't nature just the best? I also love the wild garlic flowers...as you describe, with their star white tiny thin petals.

A beautiful nature poem indeed Di. Thank you for sharing.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou for your very kind comment Jenny, which I always appreciate. I was just thinking that I had never seen any bees on these flowers, which is strange as other oniony flowers always get lots don't they? Then I saw several of these lovely butterflies! I was wishing Rhiannon was there with her super photography skills. How are you getting on with taking pictures on your phone? Was looking at cheap phones on Amazon last night and wondering if that might be a good idea

 

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

I'm afraid I gave my phone camera to my son as I wasn't really using it, but I saw him last week and I took some pictures of our wooded den, because I wanted to capture the maple tree in all its glory...just have to create a poem to go with it, but the creative flow on this is not coming at the moment and I don't want to force it, will just have to wait and see.

But I am tempted to go out and buy a decent camera with zoom lens and all that jazz, but like you I'm not technology minded and might have problems uploading, so will think long and hard before commiting, just wish my son was around all the time, because he has more idea than me.

Any way thank you for asking, I would say go ahead and buy one, especially as your husband knows what to do.

Take care.

Jenny. smiley

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I look forward to another Maple Tree poem  then, the previous one was so good :0) Am sorry you couldn't manage your phone though. It is tricky when people give instructions too fast to write them down, and trying to keep up, getting things in the wrong order - it must be difficult to understand, when something seems easy and obvious, how others struggle. My partner was going over uploading pictures yesterday and I have all these columns of instructions I wrote down so fast it's mostly illegible, with arrows when he woulds say "Oh, this might be better", and "Try if this is easier for you" before I'd got what he was saying before :0)

Perhaps, if you do buy a camera, could you write about  learning to use it - I would find that really helpful and interesting?

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

hello again Di, I know exactly what you mean, these days when people know how to do something, they tend to go at a hundred miles an hour, and I have to say I'm as slow as a snail. If I don't keep doing on a regular basis, I forget quickly.

I think we probably both need a patient professional instructor that we can magically pull out of a hat when we need them. wink Sorry I'm being a bit daft.

As far as writing about how to use a camera if I get one and uploading, it would be like the blind leading

the blind. I do upload pictures off of pixabay free to use, which I find so easy to do...you just right click and copy and paste and save. 

Hope this helps. Good luck. smiley

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou Jenny. Don't think I've tried Pixabay yet

 

Submitted by marandina on

"truants of moonlight soft as forgetting wings...."

Such a beautiful meditation, Di. Paul :)

 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much Paul, that's really kind

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

'Truants of moonlight' - that's gorgeous, Di. In fact the whole thing evokes such a beautiful picture. I was completely entranced.

Interesting about the butterflies' feet. I'm currently reading 'Other Minds' by Peter Godfrey-Smith about the octopus and the evolution of intelligent life (it was R4's Book of the Week some time ago and I wittered on about it so much my son bought me the book to shut me up) and of course octopuses taste, smell and do pretty much everything else through their arms. The different methods pursued by evolution never cease to amaze.

And another vote here for Pixabay! Everything on there is copyright free, so I never have to worry whether I've read the terms and conditions wrongly!

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Am so glad you bought that book! I was thinking about the octopus program, too, when I read about the butterfly feet! Also, there is a program on World Service caled Ingenious at the moment, and one episode was about eyes - the presenter said it is possible all species' eyes might have come from one individual because we all  share the same gene, PAX6? Starfish, who taste with their tentacles, and us and flies with their composite eyes!

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

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Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much Airyfairy!

 

 

 

Submitted by celticman on

yes, lovely and the kids love them too. 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou very much for reading and commenting Celticman

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Reading this is akin to a butterfly kiss. I love how the length echoes the length of a butterflies visit and 'soft as forgetting' is genius. They are magical little creatures.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou Jane, that's so kind :0) Am boggled it got POD actually777777 as it's so short and slight! They are magic, yes, so fragile but surviving all sorts of things, weather for all of them,huge distances for some. And the whole caterpillar thing, being one thing, then like lego being taken apart and put back together into something completely different in a chrysalis changing room :0)

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Yes, they are :0)

Thankyou for recommending Nabokov. Have had a quick look online and can't find any free to read, will have another look tomorrow

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Di

 

What a beautiful delicate poem. So few words but a lovely scene. 

Jean Day

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much for your comment Jean, which I really appreciate, you take care of yourself

 

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

Just sublime. I can reach out and feel the delicacy of every word, fragile yet strong. 

'soft as forgetting' - wonderful! 

 

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