Tantalizing Butterflies (click cursor over a photo for details of image)

Photographing Butterflies
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Photographing butterflies

That briefly pause then flutter on

An infuriating exercise

Alighting there but not for long

You take a breath – away it flies

A most frustrating enterprise

You raise the lens and then they’re gone

They’re passing right before our eyes

This image I’d immortalize

But the butterflies just carry on

They hover flit and tantalize

From that mystic world where they belong
And all our skills will utilize 

And all our photos jeopardize

So thus our pictures turn out wrong!

Whoever tries  can sympathize

And if they fail – will empathize

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While the butterflies just cruise  along