Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Be the Bee

 

 

She was lil miss

Buzz the bumblebee

She wasn’t going to just

 let her honey

 be.


 

Fierce and protective

Her words truly stung

Only the sinister selective/

Callous collective.

 

Yet the rumors really hung

Floating around the honeycomb

“Queen Bee coming through”

 

However

 She was lil miss

Buzz the bumblebee

And she was going to

Let her haters Be.

 

Mellifluous mornings

Tend to drown out the

Superfluous mournings.

 



Keep being busy

As you can be

Always be you

For you are a bee

 

Forget the fools

You

Don’t need to fix them.

 

She is lil miss

Worker bee

The pollen is where

The honey will be

And the honey is where

Her heart will always be.


 

So take the hint,

My friend

Without the likes of her

The world will go extinct.

So take the hint

And let her buzz free

And her sting be.

 

 

 

 

10 comments:

  1. Clever word play and rhyming – and such a serious and important message as the culmination!

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  2. Yes this is a lot of fun to read. Sadly for some reason humans are slowly eliminating the bee population by polution with chemicals on farming crops. Theres not much talk about it though but already there is artifical honey on supermarket shelves!

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  3. What a wonderful poem, light-hearted, yet with a sobering message. I loved that it buzzed from stanza to stanza as a bee from flower to flower.

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  4. A great poem to read aloud! I should save it for the spring & read it to the bees in the wisteria (not honey bees, but still).

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  5. I agree with Bev and Rosemary. My favorite part is:
    "The pollen is where
    The honey will be
    And the honey is where
    Her heart will always be."
    Cute!

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  6. That was fun. I heard it to music. Nice conclusion.

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  7. We can't lose the honey bee...

    I am heartened to see how many people are keeping bees in my small area. There is one fellow just started this year and has the best honey I've ever tasted.
    Love your bee utiful poem.

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  8. How incredibly delightful .... buzzzzzzzzzz.

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  9. Yes, I so love the cleverness and wordplay in this piece. I read it out loud as any piece like this needs to be. :)

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  10. This is sweet (pun intended). Recalls the hate Glyphosate Awareness caught on Twitter this week, Bayer having apparently given up efforts to censor us...how could we possibly have made the "farmers" bragging about having poisoned America's supplies of canola oil look worse than they made themselves look?!

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