Eight-line Poems

Ladybird

Ladybird

Ladybird or ladybug,
her dress a bright crimson
scattered with the black dots
that define her variant
and, could she speak
in a tiny ladylike voice,
I have no doubt she’d ask,
“Are there aphids still for tea?”


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Express It In Eight, November 25 2020
Prompt: Ladybird illustration.
Note: The last line is an obscure reference to a recording of a story by Peter Sellers in his Goon period. His original quotation that provided my inspiration was, “And is there honey still for tea?”