Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart Poet Haiku

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 July 10, 2018 at 4:58 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 Pigeon Tart July 11, 2018 at 8:08 AM ...the accents are awesome too ;) xomo

Agnes Krampe July 5, 2018 at 6:09 PM They better hurry :) Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 6, 2018 at 7:36 AM No kiddin ;) xomo

Lyric Man July 5, 2018 at 4:40 AM Maureen.. I can feel the anticipation! Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 5, 2018 at 8:29 AM I think she did too ;) xomo!

Winged Warrior July 4, 2018 at 6:25 PM Butterflies are natures little angels...lovely haiku Mo...love & light...^WW^ Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 4, 2018 at 7:26 PM I think you may be right ;) xomo!

Pat Adams July 4, 2018 at 5:41 PM I like this one. I've never seen that before in my life and I'm old as dirt!!!.....80 Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 4, 2018 at 7:25 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 July 4, 2018 at 5:31 PM Ah, butterflies are awe inspiring both for poets and artists alike Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 4, 2018 at 7:23 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 July 4, 2018 at 4:49 PM The stars are aligned, Maureen. Beautiful. Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 4, 2018 at 7:14 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 July 4, 2018 at 12:55 PM Charming! Reminds me of my roof garden and its butterflies! So wonderfully done dearest, Maureen! Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 4, 2018 at 1:24 PM Why else would we keep flowers? ;) Those solar powered beauty incarnate. Love and hugs my friend, xomo!

Susan Ashley July 4, 2018 at 12:24 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 Pigeon Tart July 4, 2018 at 7:09 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 July 4, 2018 at 1:45 PM Lol! It’s a wonderful wonderland and a nurturing nursery for all things with wings and stings! :)) Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 4, 2018 at 1:19 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 July 4, 2018 at 10:25 AM They are beautiful insects for sure, love to watch them in summertime. Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart July 4, 2018 at 1:22 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!