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
Summertime
...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
Desert
...betwixt fold of dunes
ladybirds learn lullaby ---
caressing cacti
06 April 2023...
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Categories:
ladybirds, nature,
Form: Haiku
A 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
Summer 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
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:
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
None 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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