LADYBIRD

For Archie, My Cousin in Galway

“Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home.

Your house is on fire, and your children are gone.

All except one, and her name is Ann,

And she crept under the warming sand”.

(Nursery Rhyme)

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How can a writer

Be so unkind??

I'd like to give him

A piece of my mind.

What harm can

Little ladybirds do?

They never hurt him,

Nor me, nor you.

Little animals

Just want to be

Safe and cosy

Like you and me.

Ffion