Today is Poetry Friday and since I spent much of my week educating school children about Monarchs and their habitat, I thought I would write a poem about this wonderfully unique creature. Poetry Friday is sponsored by the Teacher Dance Blog this week. Thank you for hosting this wonderful community of writers.
Meaningful Monarchs
Meaningful Monarch
An icon for all,
Indicator Species
No Matter how small
Twenty Years of sustaining
Your Habitat
Makes me Happy,
And Proud of that.
Hundreds of children
In awe of your change
From larva to butterfly
You have a large range
A story that is miraculous
To say the least,
Metamorphosis is one thing
But also a lengthy migration
For such a tiny beast.
Marvelous monarchs
On milkweed you depend,
For we all need food
That can get us around the bend.
The road is long from here to there
A Mexican Siesta awaits in the Forest far from here.
Resting in trees high away from any bear,
An awesome sight for the many that care.
Millions of monarchs
I hope you return
To fill our lives with joy,
Not concern.
I wish you well on your journey
My iconic friend.
The winter will pass quickly and
I’ll see you again!
The Apples in My Orchard 
It must have been a wonderful week telling all about these amazing monarchs, Often the story feels miraculous to me, too. FYI, your link on the blog is not working, may want to try again!
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Thanks! It is one of my favorite things to do. I checked both placed where I had a link and they go to the right pages, so I appreciate the heads up but cannot seem to see where I need to fix it. Thanks, though!
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Interesting, I should have tried twice.The first time it wouldn’t link up. Yes, all okay now. Sorry for the time taken!
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Oh, no problem at all. I would rather know than not. I was glad to check it and do appreciate you saying something! Thanks, again! Glad it is working for you too1 🙂
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Beautiful! Sadly we don’t have those wonderful creatures here in Sweden…
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Thanks for reading and your comment! I am sure you have some beautiful species of butterflies that we don’t have here! I’d love to know!
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I am no butterfly expert 🙂 But there was this one species I knew of, but I just looked it up and I think you have it in America too. In any case, I think it rivals the Monarch in beauty: papilio machaon. https://c.cdn-expressen.se/images/c1/46/c146c374b4514f9290124ccd04679c53/annan/1480@60.jpg
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Thank you for teaching about these glorious creatures. They really are miracles!
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Thanks for your comments! I agree, they are really miracles!
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