butterflyI saw a monarch butterfly today.

She fluttered and flapped her wings around the bush that usually draws those white butterflies.

With confidence and speed she dipped and dashed, showing the full flavor of

What it means to be colored and beautiful.

In a world where hate, incivility, warmongering, violence and poverty seem to rule,

She is a sweet reminder that things are not always black-and-white;

That being colored is still beautiful!

I saw a monarch butterfly today.

An endangered species,

she still exists in all her splendor.

She reminds me that being colored is still beautiful!

I saw a monarch butterfly today.

cab ~ October 2018 (Photo by Jamil A.C. Mangan)

 

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Celeste Bateman & Associates, LLC is a production, special events firm and booking agency that specializes in arts and cultural programming, arts management consulting and arts advocacy based in the greater New Jersey area.

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