Pomposity of Colors - Nature's tool for beauty and survival

Pomposity of Colors -

Nature's tool for beauty and survival

Dr Abe V Rotor

Butterfly plant, what a coincidence
     in form and structure, and color;
I'd rather say, a case of mimicry,
     mutual protection, a favor of both.

Angel's trumpet, flimsy sinister, heralding
     not of victory but defeat;
Narcotics its essence, abuse its courtship,
     to the unwary on a dark street.

Balibago - white in the morning pink after;
     your secret of a short lived;
you must court the sun and bee without delay,
     in the act of make believe.

Mickey mouse the male, Minnie mouse the female,
     both flowers born on one plant;
If ever Disney got the idea from this plant, he's right,
     mystery is what people want.

Begonia, frail and dainty, and easy to wilt
     must shout its color to the butterfly and bee,
else its flowers like spinsters just fade away
     sad and lonely though colorful and free.

Caladium - but you are not a flower and far from one;
     yet you are an apple to the eye of the beholder;
whatever perceptions you create to your pollinators,
     count me as one, your ardent gardener. 

Caballero, name of the noble horseman, 

     wakes with the sun, retires at sundown,

season after season blooms the color of gold;

      tell me where your treasure is found. 

Puff lilies, forerunner of summer in the garden,

suddenly transforming it into a piece of Eden.

Tabernamontana pandakaki - what a name!

whatever that is, bears flowers a gyre of stars

in pure white shining in some forgotten corner

of a garden where other plants are scarce ~