Bum blebees

Bum..blebees

On a warm, spring day
in…… May,
when there’s a hum
from the bum…blebees,
PLEASE,
just freeze
and……..listen!

For on that warm, spring day
in….May
that buzz and hum
does come
when young bees
are in a fret of sweat
learning their humming alphabet!

So on this warm, spring May day
when the hum of the bum..blebees
is buzzing lightly through the trees
just listen far and near,
and you’ll definitely hear
the humble, bum...blebees
practising their humming a,b,c’s.

They may, at times,
rumble or stumble 
even jumble!
But a monotous, murmuring mumble
earns a teacher’s cross-grumble
No understanding of anything carefree;
the culprit simply removed to plan bee!


Ian Souter
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Rodrigues Avatar
August 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
This is a cute one! Thanking God for the alphabet and poetic mind!
Souter Avatar
August 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Thanks Kim, Glad you enjoyed it. I had fun writing it. Must buzz off as lots more to write. Best, Ian
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