Poems by Anne Knight
Cinnabar
One day many years ago,
Came to our garden the Cinnabar,
In there hundreds.
With a colour burnt red, brown ochre,
Their upper wings are brown with two red dots on each wing.
Their lower wings reddish colour
They do not land on flowers like butterflies.
They rested on the lawn wings folded.
The Cinnabar is on the wing from May to July the colour of the
caterpillar are yellow and black transverse bands, repent on exception
among Tiger Moths.
They feed on common kinds of field and meadow groundsels.
When it was the year 2003 I only saw one in flight but was able to catch
it in my hands then let it go.
July came of that year; I had ten caterpillars with their tiger stripes
I watch them grow. In that year I noticed there was less then ten I did
not know if it had turned into pupa or not.
That year I let my meadow groundsel grow for my moths, my Tiger moths
by Anne Knight