Bee Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	Bless my pen	richard nnoli	Epic	Epic	bee, africa, courage, dedication, deep,
	Noises	Charles Henderson	Haiku	Haiku	bee, dedication, emotions,
	Cunning Zombie Pollinate Flowers Able Honey Bee	James Edward Lee Sr.	Haiku	Haiku	bee, analogy, beautiful, destiny,
	HONEY AND BEE	ALKAS POETRY	Free verse	Free verse	bee, humorous,
	ERTH DAY 2019	Jim Yerman	Verse	Verse	bee, earth day,
	Brilliant Question if You Ask Me	Caren Krutsinger	Free verse	Free verse	bee, education, jobs, school, teacher,
	And the Sun Rises	Celestine Ikwuamaesi	Free verse	Free verse	bee, philosophy,
	Living In The Footsteps	Darrell Collins	Crown of Sonnets	Crown of Sonnets	bee, black love,
	Dedication to Meals On Wheels People	Panagiota Romios	Rhyme	Rhyme	bee, age, emotions, inspirational, mother
	A Hive Of Poetry	Michael Robinson	Acrostic	Acrostic	bee, appreciation, caregiving, dedication, deep,
	For A Deep Down Debted Chat	Shourya Shrivastava	Alliteration	Alliteration	bee, anxiety, best friend, depression,
	Loss	Iman Roy	Free verse	Free verse	bee, desire, loss,
	Day Ground - A Haiku	James Edward Lee Sr.	Haiku	Haiku	bee, analogy, earth, engagement,
	No name bee	douglas pederson	Rhyme	Rhyme	bee, funny,
	haiku 77	Phyllis Babcock	Haiku	Haiku	bee, spring,
	50 Words for Poe: Blue Skies	Lady Labyrinth	Free verse	Free verse	bee, adventure, freedom, fun, humorous,
	Crushing on You	Kai Michael Neumann	Free verse	Free verse	bee, crush, cute love,
	The Snake	Kurt Ravidas	Sonnet	Sonnet	bee, love,
	Muhammad Ali and Casus Clay	stephen crenshaw	Narrative	Narrative	bee, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
	LIKE A BEE	Demetrios Trifiatis	Quatrain	Quatrain	bee, success, work,
	Why did you leave me	Gladwin Mathebula	Free verse	Free verse	bee, heartbroken,
	Being Young	Gregory R Barden	Rhyme	Rhyme	bee, age, joy, love, passion,
	ATTRIBUTE TWO MY KNEW POET TREE BOOK EDIT TOR	JAN ALLISON	Verse	Verse	bee, for her, humorous, poetry,
	50 Words for Poe: Prodigal	Lady Labyrinth	Free verse	Free verse	bee, forgiveness, freedom, love,
	Queen Bee In Dog Form Lives Here	Caren Krutsinger	Free verse	Free verse	bee, angel, dog, heaven,
	It Know It Was My Idea	Caren Krutsinger	Light Verse	Light Verse	bee, 6th grade, 7th grade,
	THE FIRST ANNUAL POETRYSOUP CONVENTION	James Edward Lee Sr.	Free verse	Free verse	bee, community, engagement, poetry, poets,
	Mom Saved These	Panagiota Romios	Free verse	Free verse	bee, childhood, memory, mother daughter,
	The Rock And The Flower	frost peterson	Couplet	Couplet	bee, wisdom,
	Self	Piercing Words	Narrative	Narrative	bee, deep, identity, life, self,
	Honey Bee	Andrea Dietrich	Haiku	Haiku	bee, nature,
	Nick The Explorer	Tom Cunningham	Limerick	Limerick	bee, humor,
	poem	FIDEL CASTRO	ABC	ABC	bee, 1st grade, africa, angel,
	The Book Worm On The Last Page	Subimal Sinha-Roy	Free verse	Free verse	bee, books, passion,
	Bygone Days	Tom Wright	Lyric	Lyric	bee, age, eulogy, time,
	A letter in ripples	Anthony Slausin	Free verse	Free verse	bee, life,
	Rocket Ship Boogie	Caren Krutsinger	Light Verse	Light Verse	bee, 4th grade, 5th grade,
	Cheers To The Bee	Cal Barkley	Rhyme	Rhyme	bee, funny, humorous, truth,
	Saturn's Rings	Lonna Blodgett	I do not know?	I do not know?	bee, good morning, imagery, spring,
	SPRING IS IN THE AIR--	James Edward Lee Sr.	Haiku	Haiku	bee, analogy, appreciation, flower, imagery,
	Unscrewed	Terry Flood	Rhyme	Rhyme	bee, desire, funny, lust,
	Delhi Rape Victim Case - SALUTE TO YOU SISTER	Ravi Sharma	I do not know?	I do not know?	bee, environment, innocence, inspirational,
	Specificity	Aaron Fletcher	Free verse	Free verse	bee, environment, poetry, sun, writing,
	My Honey Bee	warren marc	Free verse	Free verse	bee, wife,
	Base camp still intact	David Smith	Didactic	Didactic	bee, adventure, appreciation, beauty, bird,
	Spirit	Shadow Hamilton	Verse	Verse	bee, spiritual,
	Beespoke	Laura Trueman	Free verse	Free verse	bee, 12th grade, beauty, love,
	No Good In This World	Emily Krauss	Free verse	Free verse	bee, anger, conflict, dark, emotions,
	Silent Prayer	Joyce Johnson	Free verse	Free verse	bee, age, angel, prayer,
	Sting Bee	Richard Breese	Limerick	Limerick	bee, abuse, anti bullying, flower,

Bee Poem Example

A Long Loud Sigh

genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.

...maybe it's been a while since you two spoke...
when the dead sea still hosted life,
the hanging gardens of babylon grew in sinc with the breath of the planet,
before the tower of pisa started to lean or mayan buildings were in ruin.

so you write words...any words...they might at least soothe your hurt
hold your heart in a protective shield.
you know how crippling unrequited love can be.
do you still dream of its hug...genius?

life and love share more than a first letter
(like the first letter you wrote under the veil of inspiration).
they also share good and evil...it's a flip of the coin.
either way is fine with you. you'd bathe in holy water or sell your soul.
life, love...passion...somewhere in there...it lives, genius.

all of nature a reflection through its transparent figure glows dark 
like the shadows live in the radiant illumination of evening rays.

so let me speak of us!
recently when i tried to hold you...
you were like a ghost in the bright of day,
a phantom out of its element...
there was nothing of you...i could embrace.
when i tried to enter you a freezing cold ran through me like a winter brook.
you exhaled me 
as if i were fog on a deserted country road invisible to absent eyes.
still you were my drug of choice.
addicted, i chased the dragon...you...genius.

memories fill me...
days when we would paint words,
stitch in a metaphor or two,
weave in music, 
write instruments to fill in the spaces,
ordain a voice.

i remember...

you wanted to taste me
i was overwhelmed 
how you put your fingers on my lips 
how you licked them...you...genius.

you were that giant pine i would climb in the dead of winter
(why do they say that "the dead of winter"? winter will die 
when hell freezes over. winter isn't death it's purgatory.)
the one with the needles that punctures human skin.

come to me again and touch me...
like the butterfly does the wind...barely but thoroughly.
(is it true that just a tiny flutter of their wings could be 
the start of a hurricane? are the icebergs melting?)
i didn't just write that out loud...did i...with you I'm shy...genius.

GENIUS?

fine!
hide.
don't show yourself.
don't speak to me.
fine!

don't bother with rising the sun today.
forget those showers you create your magic arc with,
vacuum away all the plants.
lower your wall of blue.
i'm not interested anymore in those pillowy shapes i use to love so.

i've always known it is fire that cleanses, water that burns,
it is the moon that breaks the heart,
the stars that slaps the face...with...i don't know...reality.
i've always known by the time we see a star...
in real time...it's already extinguished...already dead.

it is our friends that will use us...our heroes that will lie to our face...
our blood will betray our trust...our teachers will fail us...
our leaders treat us like just another job...
the devout that will exhibit hatred.

still i believe. no matter what else...the rose will always survive.
the petals deceiving. they will repel all that is unholy.
grab it by the neck and squeeze out its black ooze,
leaving a gentle soul there to admire its adversary.
don't even get me started on the orchid
or even the flowers all...alphabetically.

i dare confront the beauty of nature's art unframed...
canvas loose to admire...genius!

i miss you but i am out of tears.
do drop in though. 
i can offer you a cup of dry warmth...
soothing like burning logs that crackle with laughter.

or 

take you to my secret place.
behind the camouflage of forests dense,
where vines grow through spiral staircases 
made of turtle shells and dressed in discarded snake skins.
green is the theme there. it is everywhere,
unabridged, unabated, unaffected, undisturbed 
with a fuming, burning, yearning to be touched.
so let's...let's grab...hold...squeeze..
feel free from the cheap paradigm offered.

i don't think you know, even while you sleep, i hold your hand, genius.

dream a full rainbow on a fingernail moon night,
feel february twenty ninth its absolute might,
taste fully the slight of a pheasant in flight,
yearn eternal life, wish a vampire's bite,
concoct rhymes nicely fluffed with built in sight.

genius?
on this sombre morning the sun is blinding.
damn my eyes.
there is a negative entity drapes our children's world.
shame on us...shame on you...i need you.
i am reduced to an objective observer.
life glides on the little wings of its carrier,
its final resting point in the hands of the wind.
another life carried away on a worker bee,
busy stealing nectar from a succulent bud.
a stowaway hangs on for dear life to the flyers leg.
gets off at the next flower.
meets up with a companion to create a new life.

genius?,
everything changed when I met you.
was the sun rising or the mountain sinking.
was that an orange globe against a blue sky
or a lit round hole in a sad wisp of air.

i'll play a keyless piano if you'll paint me a horizon I can reach.
i'll sing you a ballad with a single note...

i walked into my life without consideration.
maybe crawled.
all the same...
when do I get a choice.
when will they stop holding death over my head.

if i could direct a few more plays with you as my guide...
my art, my life! genius i long for your influence...
even one last time to see your face, 
unite and give you one last kiss...goodnight.




April 1 2015
Maurice Yvonne
Sponsor: Linda
Contest Name:A Million Dollar Poem

Poem Copyright © Maurice Yvonne