Ladybug

Good luck, make a wish!

Dear Lady near me, spotted

With her red skirt, black polka-dotted

Alight on white lacy flower potted

As a tablecloth for a summer picnic

With me, flushing in the besotted,

Joyful “eye-spy” Memories~cotted

Catching color, With my kids,

Catching color, with my parents,

Catching color, with myself

Over my lifetime allotted

As I trotted here today

With my black & white dog, spotted

Good luck, make a wish!

Dear Lady you catch me now—

With your spectacled hat, plotted

Black & white polka-dotted

Seeing through time…well spent,

Purely in the delight of Seeing

Seeing with the wonder of unique beauty

In the field of gorgeous vastness,

Flushing in the besotted,

Joyful memories of “sharp-eyes”;

The name my dad gave me for

Always finding the tiniest,

Most subtle, mottled expressions

of our colorful world, spotted

Good luck, make a wish!

Oh beetle of Our Lady!

You are an answer to a prayer—slotted

My morning prayer of joyful presence;

To See with the eyes of God

Besotted with the unbottled elixir

of catching ALL the colors—

Catching colors, with my kids

Catching colors, with my parents

Catching colors, with myself

Beauty found here equally allotted

With my memories~cotted

Dear Lady near me, polka-dotted

Good luck, make a wish!

**name "ladybug" was coined by European farmers who prayed to the Virgin Mary when pests began eating their crops. After ladybugs came and wiped out the invading insects, the farmers named them "beetle of Our Lady." This eventually was shortened to "lady beetle" and "ladybug."