Leaf Skeleton: Painting and Verse

Dr Abe V Rotor

                  Leaf Skeleton, painting in acrylic by AVR 2013 

When once living veins through which life flows, 
      now the relics of a youthful past;
your flowers the abode of your enemies* 
      hidden by your beauty in their lust.    

* A colony of aphids and red ants.