Enigma is beauty, too.
Dr Abe V Rotor
Maguey (Agave cantala) looks menacing to browsing animals and intruders.
The leaves are radially arranged and spiked at the tip like the sea urchin.
Nature's art can be beautiful and painful,
enigma is beauty, too;
like a rose beneath its petals are thorns,
life's like that in the same view.
Powderpuff lily (Scadoxus multiflorus) has lost its "fire" shortly after its full bloom.
Skeleton of a mysterious flower
reveals the Sequence of Fibonacci*
the world has yet to know Nature's order,
the enigma of its essential beauty.
* Italian mathematician who discovered natural patterns include symmetries, trees, spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tessellations, cracks and stripes. Early Greek philosophers studied pattern, with Plato, Pythagoras and Empedocles attempting to explain order in nature.
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