follow the poolside shadows
Venus of Delphi
daughter of bitter waves
peek through the peephole
of my glaucous thorax
open your byzantine eyes and
spurn your locomotor ataxia
one glance at our vitreous hands
– a sight for blind sore eyes
one brush of our riveted lips
– gone astray in malformations
one ponderous confession later
– immaterial as a shadow of the lash
let the weeping corpuscles lie
swarm and jostle in the grotto
rattle and blather away our days
I’ll wait for your recriminations
fall asunder under your touch
fastidious in my entomology
let the bouquet glide downstream
the scytheman is still in his kingdom
then we rejoice in endless daze
the lingering beaten with bravura
Intense emotions surged when justice sought
if I defended wrongful witness brought.
Then I was saved through Daniel; nearly caught.
Accused of sins absurd, derogatory words
from people’s tongues not curbed, but gossip which they heard.
Cupidity the driving force behind
the false accusers’ spiteful state of mind.
So rarely friends could then be found in kind.
The tides will ebb and flow as inner doubts still grow;
for balm of ocean’s throw thus right so many lows.
If seen at daily tasks, I’m never fraught.
I won’t let memories my love to curdle.
Some kindness helped recover peaceful find,
depend’n whichever way the wind should blow.
Those who have studied entomology
are aware of this one fact about the bee.
There is one type of male bee that is known.
It is commonly referred to as a “drone”.
They are non-workers lacking one thing.
None of them are able to sting.
Drones do not gather pollen to make honey.
Their job is to keep the queen bee company.
In the polyandrous hive, the drones are to copulate.
The queen bee must be happy with more than one mate.
Each day, so many wooden homes are eaten away.
A termite queen can lay two thousand eggs a day.
Damage is gradual, but it occurs day and night.
Those little insects have such a voracious appetite.
Most of us have heard of that branch of zoology.
The study of insects is known as entomology.
There is widespread destruction because of all of this.
No wonder exterminators have such a lucrative business.
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