Colonised, old railway tracks and pits.
Spread of creeping thistle and bracken.
Limestone grasslands, brimstone broods;
fritillaries, clouded yellows.
Migrations on the Spurn peninsula.
Spoil heaps, soot pollution,
westward movement towards Pennines.
Painted ladies that travel by night,
overwintering wanderers;
honeydew and damp meadows.
Conservation, hibernation, extinctions.
Late sightings in gardens, allotments,
cemeteries, headlands, clearings.
Malham Tarn, Knaresborough,
Robin Hood’s Bay, Orgreave.
The damage to populations
wreaked by faraway eruptions.
(Found poem from words in The Butterflies of Yorkshire,
ed: Howard M Frost, Butterfly Conservation Yorkshire,2005)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
A well articulated piece of poetry, insightfully penned with conviction. A lovely poem indeed. Thanks for sharing Greg and do remain blessed.
Very kind of you to say so, Chinedu