Friday, March 15, 2024

Gardening with Happy Bees - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Gardening with Happy Bees

 

                …for so work the honey-bees,

Creatures that by a rule in nature teach

The act of order to a peopled kingdom

 

-Henry V, I.ii.87-89

 

A bumblebee hovers in front of my face

No hostility; it’s simply greeting me

As I putter from pot to place to pot again

Messing contentedly with seedlings and soil

 

But honeybees race around me in formation

No hostility; they’re ignoring me

They speed from water to flower to hive and back –

After all, every flower needs a little love (wink)

 

Blessed spring hovers softly everywhere

As bee-sy bees sing their sweetest airs

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