Six - legged Beauties

Six - legged Beauties

Black and white insects
And multicoloured too.

Some are fast and
some are slow,
some are captors,
others, their prey,
some whirr their wings,
while others are silent,
some light up their bodies,
while others do not;

so many different creatures,
and yet, almost the same!

© Dr. Taher Kagalwala 2003

Author's note: This form of poetry is called a Parallelismus Membrorum; in this, pairs of sentences should have antithetical statements. Sentences are short.