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Ladybirds Poems - Poems about Ladybirds

Dear Tom

...Dear Tom

If I had the courage to speak from the heart
Ladybirds of redness would sing from
It.
I imagined my pain was of your making
But it was only the making of life.
Now I'm alive like a l...
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Categories: ladybirds, friend,
Form: Free verse

Happiness in Action

...Happiness in Action 
By Michelle Morris 
07/03/2025

Chasing Happiness is an illusion 
Chasing Happiness is a dream 
A mirage in the desert 
A fantasy in the in-between 

In-between the mome...
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Categories: ladybirds, beautiful, encouraging, happiness, happy,
Form: Rhyme



Perfectly formed

...Nature is magical, mystical and magnificent. Be inspired every day.

Perfectly formed 
By Michelle Morris 
23/08/2024

When last did you stop and notice 
The perfection in the leaves?
The bea...
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Categories: ladybirds, earth, earth day, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

SIMPLE SPIDER STORY

...SIMPLE SPIDER STORY

Palsy poison spider
bickering, binding, biting
sparring, stinging, scampering
creeping in crevices cocooned 
coded crooked cock-eyed

Here, there, everywhere 

Scorpion...
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Categories: ladybirds, 12th grade, analogy, color,
Form: Alliteration

It's About the Moments

...It's about the moments 
By Michelle Morris
05/08/2023

It's about the moments
Between the moments
When we can step back
And breathe

Watch the dust dance
In the sunbeams
Crystals sparkle
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Categories: ladybirds, angel, blessing, life, light,
Form: Lyric



Premium MemberSummertime

...Summer is the season that brings forth buds and blooms,
When every hill and vale in green livery, clad,
When the busy bee around opening flower zooms,
And stray clouds in the blue-sky roam...
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Categories: ladybirds, butterfly, summer, sun,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberDesert

...betwixt fold of dunes
ladybirds learn lullaby ---
caressing cacti 

06 April 2023...
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Categories: ladybirds, nature,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberA Bird In My Garden

...I spotted a robin among many birds in my garden mead
Tilting its head this side and that, looking for some feed
It wasn't to satisfy its hunger but for its young ones to be fed
It had lovely feath...
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Categories: ladybirds, beautiful, bird, garden,
Form: Rhyme

The Ladybird

...A ladybird landed, on my hand today,
And looked at me, in a peculiar way.
It stretched it’s legs, and opened its wings,
As birds flew by, soft melodies they’d sing.

“Excuse me sir?”, the ladybi...
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Categories: ladybirds, dream, funny, garden,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSummer In the Meadow

...Down in the meadow, bees are buzzing away
cows laze about, after feeding all day
Wildflowers attract butterflies, in pastel arrays
lapping up nectar, in the warm sunny rays 

Down in the meadow,...
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Categories: ladybirds, allusion, nature, nice,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberCoccinellidae

...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: ladybirds, funny,
Form: Rhyme

My Mum Said I Could Be Anything I Wanted She F King Lied

...All the things i wanted to be
-a tree
-the glint off of a still mist covered pool
- Taz spinning round
-a spot on a ladybirds wing
-the crunch of autumn leaves
- a fire engine
- a guess
- a 1...
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Categories: ladybirds, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Haiku

...
midday a blackbird
feeding on a fat ball
look a butterfly

a large cabbage white
will it find a partner
blackbird eating fat

bluetit checking out
a bird box mid-summer
rav...
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Categories: ladybirds, bird, butterfly, nature, summer,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberNone Great None Small

...It’s, for me, not nature’s just one aspect or the other;
But, each creature of nature is greater than the other.
An ant moving unnoticed under any leaf or flower,
Rolling food, even under feet of ...
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Categories: ladybirds, animal, bird, creation, insect,
Form: Free verse

Summer Meadows

...To lie in summer meadows with tall grass all around, eyes fixed and staring into endless sky.
Tracking across the heavens, trying to locate the sound of a skylark’s endless warble up on high.
Feeli...
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Categories: ladybirds, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme

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