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Missing Monarch

I'm waiting for you butterfly milkweeds are in bloom MagiCicada 13 Nb minutes after I penned this I received my first royal visit. I just saw her lay an egg!

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Robert Warlov

Date: 7/10/2018 4:58:00 PM

when I saw the word Monarch I thought you were English and was visited by the queen I didn't get the metaphor when you said she laid an egg. don't we love the English... I mean the language...

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/11/2018 8:08:00 AM

...the accents are awesome too ;) xomo

Agnes Krampe

Date: 7/5/2018 6:09:00 PM

They better hurry :)

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/6/2018 7:36:00 AM

No kiddin ;) xomo

Lyric Man

Date: 7/5/2018 4:40:00 AM

Maureen.. I can feel the anticipation!

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/5/2018 8:29:00 AM

I think she did too ;) xomo!

Winged Warrior

Date: 7/4/2018 6:25:00 PM

Butterflies are natures little angels...lovely haiku Mo...love & light...^WW^

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/4/2018 7:26:00 PM

I think you may be right ;) xomo!

Pat Adams

Date: 7/4/2018 5:41:00 PM

I like this one. I've never seen that before in my life and I'm old as dirt!!!.....80

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/4/2018 7:25:00 PM

I had never seen that before. And I even got to share it with a dear friend, she showed up moments after posting this, and gaped in awe with me as it lay eggs in plain sight before us. Magical! ;) xomo

Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 7/4/2018 5:31:00 PM

Ah, butterflies are awe inspiring both for poets and artists alike

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/4/2018 7:23:00 PM

Indeed! A couple years ago, late summer, I complied to a compulsion to sculpt a butterfly (had never) Lo the next morning I found a butterfly had been swept in the day before, resting three feet from where I sat. I took it outside to sun up and it flew away.

Line Gauthier

Date: 7/4/2018 4:49:00 PM

The stars are aligned, Maureen. Beautiful.

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/4/2018 7:14:00 PM

Oh they seemed to this morning! Awe stuck. My dear friend showed up just after posting this, she watched with me as the Monarch laid four more eggs in plain sight. Will be cordoning off from the dogs ;) merci mon ami! xomo

Demetrios Trifiatis

Date: 7/4/2018 12:55:00 PM

Charming! Reminds me of my roof garden and its butterflies! So wonderfully done dearest, Maureen!

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/4/2018 1:24:00 PM

Why else would we keep flowers? ;) Those solar powered beauty incarnate. Love and hugs my friend, xomo!

Susan Ashley

Date: 7/4/2018 12:24:00 PM

I love your majestic haiku, Maureen. We too, grow milkweed for the butterfly royals.. you and I do share a love thing for winged things don't we..? :)) Warmest wishes my lovely.. ~Susan

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/4/2018 7:09:00 PM

Yeah, stings too; the wasps were driving me nuts in the house last year so I started feeding them outside. Made everybody else nervous ;)

Susan Ashley
Date: 7/4/2018 1:45:00 PM

Lol! It’s a wonderful wonderland and a nurturing nursery for all things with wings and stings! :))

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/4/2018 1:19:00 PM

We do!! I'm just waiting to get a complaint about my front bird/butterfly/bee garden, my wild globe thistles are seven feet tall! I think I better preempt with a plaque ;) and knowing I have eggs in my backyard milkweed patch, it's a nursery now! Thanks lovely! xomo <3

Tom Cunningham

Date: 7/4/2018 10:25:00 AM

They are beautiful insects for sure, love to watch them in summertime.

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/4/2018 1:22:00 PM

My heart was breaking with not having seen a single Monarch this year. Then literally minutes after I wrote this, she arrives. And to boot, my first time ever witnessing a female lay eggs. So excited. xomo!