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Where, Caterpillar, Where?

Caterpillar, where are you going? 
Somewhere the cold wind ain't blowing?

I will surely hate to see you go.
Take care, the gardener likes to mow.

First, you stretch out, and then up you bunch.
Watch out for the foot, lest you go scrunch.

You can bend, but you will never break.
You haven't a bone for heaven's sake. 

I want to say you are fantastic -  
Gooey inside, outside elastic.

One day, I hope you will flutter by - 
When you're a pretty butterfly.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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Rodrigues Avatar
December 4, 2024 at 5:10 AM
A caterpillar’s hope of a flutter by :) Very cute!
Crandall Avatar
December 4, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Thanks Kim!
Greenhough Avatar
December 3, 2024 at 3:59 PM
This is a nice poem for an oft overlooked bug. Good caterpillars and bad caterpillars. I can't tell the difference.
Crandall Avatar
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 PM
I like them all now. I was a dummy when I first moved in because I killed some eating my milkweed plants, but they turned into monarch butterflies, so now I take extra care not to harm or step on them.
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