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Dragonfly: You Win

Humans have skeleton inside But your bone structure is outside Our soft tissue is much exposed But yours is all tightly enclosed Our skin loses our body heat But your thick shell does insulate We struggle with the climate change But to you it is nothing strange We eat stuff that has long been dead But you eat living things instead Our flying uses combustion But your wings use respiration Now I mull over all of this You have it right and us amiss The fossil record shows it clear For three hundred million year You did adapt not disappear But we humans are nowhere near Our species on the edge we fear

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Date: 11/26/2020 11:38:00 AM
very informative poem Tony, they are amazing insects that's part of the reason i chose one for my avatar:-) hugs Jan xx
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Tony Hargreaves
Date: 11/29/2020 11:48:00 PM
Thanks Jan. Yes, dragonflies will be here when we have gone. All the best. Tony x

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