Monarchs in April
Each spring, the milkweed
Warm, honey-spiced, and piquant
Intoxicating
Tempts the butterflies;
Umbels bobbing in the breeze
Vibrant, solar-hued
Monarchs stop to perch
Sunning cathedral glass wings
Luminous and frail
Leaving behind eggs
Dotting leaves like fine brocade
Or fragile beading
Day Three Prompt: Involved making a list of words and finding other rhyming words via an online rhyming dictionary. The only thing I wound up keeping (despite having done the initial exercise!) was one of the original words I came up with (piquant, courtesy a random word generator). Nothing else from the exercise appeared in this haiku sequence, ha ha.
