Duet

My friend Sarah and I used to take turns writing four-line stanzas of little poems for kids, just for fun. We'd often pass them back and forth via email when I was living in Halifax and she was in Victoria. This one is from the archives, and is unfinished (we didn't get very far) so add a verse, if you please.....

Under a rosebush,
on top of a slug

sat little Jemima

a lone ladybug.

The slug was quite slimy

but Jemima don't mind--

the slime held them together,

a gluish-like bind.

Through rains of November,

while winter winds blew,

under hot July sun,

nothing unstuck the glue.

And when Slug was down-hearted,

feeling sad, feeling blue

Jemima summoned her wits,

she knew just what to do....