Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MINISTERING BEES, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poet's Biography First Line: Think you this topaz powder on the bee Last Line: Not merely honey drunken debauchees! Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Insects; Sex; Beekeeping; Wine; Bugs | ||||||||
Think you this topaz powder on the bee Is accidental, frail or fugitive? That his sole mission, bumping joyously, Is for the sweetness that the flowers give? Such noisy busybodies! See the horde That riotously swarms, unsatisfied Till each ambrosial storehouse is explored And every blossom's treasury well pried. Not frail nor fugitive this tawny dust Twinkling on antlered head and brittle wings. It is the vital element that must Make fertile through predestined scatterings My cucumbers. Wise AEsculapian bees, Not merely honey drunken debauchees! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER by ROBERT BLY PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN by MADELINE DEFREES CLEMATIS MONTANA by MADELINE DEFREES THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH by NORMAN DUBIE BELINDA by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK |
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