The Ladybug And Her Dandy Lion provides an example of something from the present, the picture of the ladybug on a dandelion, connecting with something from the past, the picture of the bee on a sunflower.

The connection was not intentional, but popped into my mind all on its own, as did its story.

Just another reason I love writing.

The Ladybug And Her Dandy Lion

4.16.2017 (Easter Sunday)

 

A ladybug

On a dandelion

Spied a bee

On a sunflower

In the height of its buzz

Giving all that it’s got

To be something it’s not

Tried to roar like a lion

But all he could muster

Was a buzz

 

The ladybug

Moved to a closer dandelion

Said to the bee

On the sunflower

Still lion tryin’

“It’s not in your power,

so why all this fuss

tryin’ to roar like a lion

when a bee can only buzz?”

 

The bee

In reply

To the inquiry of intention

Said his attempt at roaring worked

It got the ladybug’s attention

He’d tried buzzing before

Didn’t get him second mention

To the dandelion’s roar

 

So the bee changed up his game

He began his mission tryin’

To be why the ladybug came

Roared his loudest dandy lion

The bee chalked up a win

For she left her dandelion

The ladybug had noticed him

Her newfound dandy lion

 

"When I was just a buzz,

you would never listen.

I was only background noise

while you kept dandelion kissing.

So I altered my voice

to one that’s not worth missing,

because a dandy lion roar

makes me the one worth kissing,"

 

Swooned

The ladybug

Left her dandelion

Joined her dandy lion

Still on the sunflower

Shining

 

Now the ladybug and her dandy lion

The ladybug and her dandy lion

 

And when the sun went down

The night was abuzz

About the ladybug roaring

With her new dandy lion love