Clifford Villalon Poet Didactic

The Tempered Lily

There are so many creatures in the animal world,  both tame and wild, that survived for centuries.
  Plants and trees are enclosed in the same picture where the strong and bold have reigned supreme.
  When Science classified  the existence of different identities and characteristics of various earthlings, the terms "flora" and "fauna" were coined.  Plus "biota" in distinct regions and "biome" or ecosystem where all earthlings come and interact together.
  The scientific names of land and water animals including the plant and tree names are all enclosed in the same capsule wherein humans are also named distinctly and characterized.
  So what's the connection of the "tempered lily" on this page?... As humans, we can be like Victoria Amazonica under any weather condition or situation.  Use your imagination if you still believe in fantasy and wyverns!
  Long time ago, a group of  small plants lived on land. And almost all of them only survived on dirt or soiled grounds.  When wild animals roamed and conquered the earth and all plants never grew as trees for being consumed rapidly, land spirits or sprites of the ground thought of moving some plants from dirt to waters to protect and preserve the everlasting glory and beauty of nature.  Land spirits or invisible ghosts are dependent on life's physical forms, that's why they cannot let the material structures around them to disappear. Only because of the modern Science and technology  that the peaceful world of plants on soiled grounds are destroyed and vanished due to quarrying and human exploration.  Displaced land spirits before they were totally driven away by time had the opportunity to shift or immigrate from dirt to waters.  The giant water lily (Victoria Amazonica/Regia) that fascinated the human eyes is one plant that land spirits strengthened and tempered to prove to the World that there is strength in softness and resilience in chaos.  No wonder, these lilies that you will find in the area of Yucuruchi  and waters of Guyana are being carefully monitored and maintained by humans themselves.  Believe it or not, these giant lilies are the safety abodes of the the same host spirits of the old natural world that the present time is still keeping!
  Sound weird,  isn't it?

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