A White Brown Spotted Butterfly

So little time for living life so little time for play Just enough time for mating and her tiny eggs to lay On cabbage leaf or edible plant where her caterpillars grow before they pupate Just enough of time in her short life new life for to create A brown dark spotted butterfly around the garden fly It does seem in the freshening breeze that she is dancing in the sky A fragile living thing of Nature so lovely for to see I can only gaze in wonder at the beauty around me Of the ways of Nature's butterflies little I can claim to know From a tiny ugly caterpillar into a thing of beauty they do grow In the warmth of the afternoon it flits around the flowers That bloom in the October sunshine after the recent Spring showers A white brown spotted butterfly a thing of beauty rare She flits around the blossoming trees and dances in the air.