Long Ladybirds Poems

margins stimulate and juxtapose
  edges greet with troubled, disturbing friction
  faraway forces exert influence and combine relentlessly
  how the Sun and Moon dance together about the planet Earth
  their grasping hands...

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as if Monet had planted water lilies in Babylon

          hanging gardens at the heart of a canvas of joy

       ...

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Through the dewy panes
     As my eyes scan through my garden
      Everytime I am spellbound
        My childhood's hideout
 ...

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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.
Feeling a sense...

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My beautiful flower garden 
high up in the sky
is my penthouse apartment 
overlooking the sea
With balconies facing 
in every direction
and wonderful views 
that set my soul free

In ornamental pots 
of various sizes 
I grow roses
hydrangeas
and...

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THE   FLOWERS   WELCOME   THE   QUEEN 



Spring returns  to my garden and the  Golden Queen
Once  again  warms  everything she touches.
A little girl ...

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When I was just a little girl
I painted soaring seagulls
in a dawning sky of duck-egg blue
I painted ladybirds and whimsical butterflies
A red cottage with square-shaped windows
A misty mountain with a purple hue.
All my fields were...

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I gave you a wonderful
Landscape to view
And grow
Foods and beautiful
Flowers

I gave you fresh
Rivers and lakes
That are homes to myriads
Of sea animals

I gave you different
Kinds of minerals to invent
Tools for making your lives
Easier like the
Mountain bees...

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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...

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What is this friendship we covet
Is it special is it right. 
It doesn't need to be sexual.
Sometimes I prefer you when your Intellectual.
A game two or one can play.
Endless childish fun all day.
Watching butterflies flutter...

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He is the sound of a waterdrop 
A waterdrop off a leaf into a pond
He keeps monkeys and trees, bond
And works zebras for donkeys

He sprinkles scent on flowers 
And enchants buffaloes for mowers
He spells vultures...

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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 ladybird squeaked,
“May I sit...

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Out of the burrows and hedges and dreys
Heads began bobbing and eyes were agaze.
Rumours were twittered and grunted and squealed:
‘The combine is coming to harvest the field!’
The moles and the voles and the rabbits and...

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A huge Alsatian barks at a passerby stranger
as the pond geese honk sensing grave danger
Trudges back home a rangy lone ranger.

Big and little aubergines cast a purple shade
In the twilight birdsong begins to fade
Night makes...

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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 animals much...

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SIMPLE SPIDER STORY

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

Here, there, everywhere 

Scorpions enticed bicolour eyes
broken webs of gravity’s return
to sting a billion bites boggling 
so drenched in poison they...

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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 beauty of the flowers?
The scent of Nature's blessings in...

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I like to make things grow
I’m very good at it.
I use my spade and dig quite deep
All sorts of bugs I like to meet.

Ladybirds live together just like in a kibutz
They are very friendly, but...

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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...

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in my garden towards the East,
the honey bees have built a hive,
where human traffic is the least,
their busy low hum comes alive.

swishing across my garden plot,
in one and twos for the nectar,
then hum their way...

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My wooden dappled rocking horse
Chomping at the bit
Eyes deranged with fearsome fire
Does make my stomach flit
And whilst we race
At perfect pace
Within the purple yonder
No time to sit on laurels dear
Blow dandelions nor ponder

In hot pursuit
And...

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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
In between

Sunlight and freedom
Magical breathtaking views
Seeing and believing
Living your joyous truth

Commune with nature
With...

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Amidst the brilliant colours, of this garden hidden away
Dwell the beings of childhood fantasies that dance and frolic and play
Where ladybirds nestle contently on a carpet of brilliant green
And the colours of the rainbow, on...

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I have a secret cabin,
it has a pretend location.
A place especially hidden,
only I can go there through transformation.
.
The brightest blue water trickles down the stones molding tiny waves. 
Fashioning a wide stream for ladybirds to...

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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 moments 
In-between the years
Where we forget about...

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