By Violet Easley
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two ladybugs met, just
on the side of the road.
one light and one spotted.
the light to the spotted said
“if i am a ladybug
and you are a ladybug
then we must belong!
our wings are round
shelly, and yellow
you’re a good fella,
let’s get dinner togetha!”
so the ladybugs went, towards their new home, hand in hand, to together forever.
About the Author
Violet Easley is a student here at Illinois Central College. From a young age, she has enjoyed creative writing as it allows her to express herself in a way that spoken word often fails. In February 2022, she won Second Place in the Carl Sandburg Poetry Contest with her entry “In a Man’s World." This work was published by Carl Sandburg in a small collection later that year. In her free time, she enjoys baking, running, writing, and drinking coffee. Through her writing, she hopes to inspire many others about the power writing can hold, and how expressive it can be of oneself.