Nature's Sweet Lies in 4 Models: Sea Urchin, Sargassum Fish, Moth, and Locust

Nature's Sweet Lies in 4 Models

Sea Urchin, Sargassum Fish,  Moth, and Locust

"Deceit and conceit in a duo,

 Makes one believe or doesn't know

 To accept things or analyze

 Nature's own sweet and gentle lies." -avr

Dr Abe V Rotor

1. Sea Urchin

Master of Defence

 

Sea Urchin in acrylic (11"x13.5") by the author

You're all made of spikes,

I can't see the real you;

in your invincible armor

in any view.

Wonder how many of us

live like the urchin

in silent, unknown ways

and never seen. ~

                        2. Sargassum Fish

Model of Mimicry and Camouflage

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Sargassum Fish in acrylic by the author, circa 2002

Strange this living world, if you wish;

fish to Sargassum, Sargassum to fish;

if evolution is by fusion

toward peace and unification,

where then lies fission,

key to diversification?

There would be more fossils

than the present living,

extinguished before their time,

unfit by Darwinian rule -

unless the past had little left

the proof of the whole.

And here before our eyes: the link

of time past and present,

of fossil and the living,

changing, too nil, yet sublime;

wondering at Nature's game,

in her own sweet time.~

3. Moth

Master of Hide-and-Seek

Lepidopterans come in three groups:

butterflies, skippers and moths;

when young, worms or caterpillars

emerging in flight among the stars.

 

It's Nature's hide-and-seek game,

a moth on tree bark the same;

test of awareness and sight,

camouflage instead of fight.

 4. Locust

Model of Deceit and Conceit

                  A pair of locust in camouflage and mimicry with the environment

The locust in summer is brown,

A lonely creature yet a clown;

Full in monsoon of hues of green,

Grotesque and mean I've ever seen.

The moth wears dust to hide its frame,

At dusk wakes up and play the game

Of feigning dead, devoid of spark;

Its enemies think it's all bark.

Where comes the trigger, that I know,

Hormones by signal freely flow,

Masking colors, painting a view,

To match a perfect scenario.

Deceit and conceit in a duo,

Makes one believe or doesn't know

To accept things or analyze

Nature's own sweet and gentle lies.~