Where To Start With Forgiveness
...I am wrapped in shame
Like the garden path lined by wilted roses
And their thorny sidekicks.
As I pluck in frustration,
Pulling prickly forgiveness from my dungarees
The garden fence shrink...
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Categories:
lady beetle, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Coccinellidae
...Okay, I must admit - no names have been changed to protect anything or anyone! PLEASE do not turn this political and no letters from any woman who might be offended or grievances from union members, ...
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Categories:
lady beetle, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Little Lady Bug
...Little lady bug by my window how pretty you look
with your fragile wings and sweet tiny polka dots
Fate brought you to me like a great chinook
you landed on my heart, like a Cupid shot !
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Categories:
lady beetle, appreciation, insect,
Form: Rhyme
The Vestal and the Ladybug
...There was a little ladybug in my house tonight
that means pleasing luck and prosperity hindsight
as her son Jesus riding a pack animal burro
Mary Ladybird our Lady spots joy and with sorrow
from ...
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Categories:
lady beetle, insect, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Three Lady Beetles
...Three lady beetles
put on a little show;
Whilst in the great outdoors
Effected me to whoa.
Spotted one on a leaf,
Handled her with care
Weightless though sheer greatness and
Black-spotted o...
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Categories:
lady beetle, blessing, insect, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Single Saddest Night
...A teensy weensy lady beetle
A bitty, pint sized bug
Seduced by the tune of an old man’s fiddle
Had went inside and gotten stuck
Her little, feeble, fragile limbs
Supported her spotted frame
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Categories:
lady beetle, bereavement, fantasy, farewell, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Little Lady
...Many insects creep upon this earth,
and hardly anyone refers to them as “nice”
or writes a poem reflecting on their worth!
Spiders sometimes make me jump as if they were small mice,
and h...
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Categories:
lady beetle, cute, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To the Ladybug
...blood red diamond
tops tender green emeralds,
rose quartz and morganite
in a feast of polished deposit.
teardrop laden,
glistening against the stirring sun,
the world waits in dew.
crystal drops win...
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Categories:
lady beetle, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
That Blasted Halloween Lady Beetle
...that japanese ladybug, that harlequin ladybird, that
asian lady beetle, that harmonia axyridis,
invading, infesting, multiplying & spreading all over the inside of one’s
domain
(a lo largo de las gri...
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Categories:
lady beetle, life,
Form: Free verse