Women are like Wild Honey
They start thick—
not the polite kind you stir into tea
not the mild drizzle on breakfast toast
but the kind that runs hot
slow
dangerous
coating your tongue before you grasp
the price of its pleasure.
They start golden—
dripping off the comb
sun pressed into their marrow
too rich, too syrupy—
gumming up the gears of your schemes
too
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Categories:
honeybee, extended metaphor, fire, freedom,
Form: Lyric
honeybee dance explains all
Buzzing fuzzy brown bee flies in for a honeybee dance
We know it’s far because he does a figure eight
If honeycomb was near, he would have done a quick circle prance
We got ready for a long trek, honeycomb tasting our fate.
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Categories:
honeybee, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Beauty of Sea
Ah! how beautiful you are
You are like the first love of honeybee
Whenever I see you, I feel a upward move
Breathing you call a light fever
Sunray gets a magic heart touching by you
Everybody waits to see the wavy boat on you
Singing a song on your land like a best ever gift
And the sky takes all the
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Categories:
honeybee, imagination,
Form: Verse
Oh, Honeybee
I met this fine lady
on Saturday night
Hot Mocha all over
satin dress was skin tight
Her musical nuance
playin six and eight-time
She says Loves ain't a sin
Honey and it's not a crime
Didn't have to think
we went for a ride
Yeah, call it a spin
We grooved all night
She gave me a kiss
as I gaze in her eyes
She says Love's not
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Categories:
honeybee, fantasy, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
An Ode To My Honeybee
I was found by you in my darkest time
You landed upon me as if I was a freshly bloomed flower
You made me feel young and beautiful
I felt like I could sing, like I could dance once again
And so my dearest honeybee
I give you the pollen of my flower
I give you the fruits of my
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Categories:
honeybee, love,
Form: Free verse
Phoebe Freebie
Fee Bee is the Queen of the Hive
With drones to make her feel alive
She eats royal jelly
To fill up her belly
So the Hive will survive and thrive
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Categories:
honeybee, nature,
Form: Limerick
Honeybee
If I come to you in summer fields
full of fragrant bell-shaped flowers,
would you fly that I might follow
to watch you dance before your fellows
in floral-edged soliloquy.
With vibrant tempos fundamental
you turn and run and circle 'round,
find vertical inclination
to correlate the invitation
and fly the pathway now revealed -
Then come again to summer fields
full of fragrant bell-shaped flowers.
*****
Note:
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Categories:
honeybee, nature,
Form: Other
Sweet Tea
honeybees frolic
nectar rich white clover buds
tomorrow's iced tea
written July 20, 2021
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Categories:
honeybee, drink, flower, food, insect,
Form: Haiku
Mr Honeybee Nursery Rhyme
Buzzing about, On wings of black
Wearing gold stripes
He lands on a pretty lilac
And sits there for a bit
Mr. Honeybee
Works all the day long
Drinking from the sweet pea
Nursing his appetite
With flavors bold as the fruit tree
Brilliant blooms
So lively and vibrant
They seem to breathe perfumes
Of joy through the air
As Mr. Honeybee resumes
Weaving through the sunshine rays
That wash
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Categories:
honeybee, 1st grade, child, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
In Late Summer
In late summer the trees in our front yard flower.
Our neighbor calls the trees "High Heavens"
because the blossoms and subsequent purple berries reach toward the sky,
and in late afternoon sun take on an ethereal, golden-lavender color.
When the trees blossom they are filled with honeybees going about their honey-
collecting business.
Some days the trees
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Categories:
honeybee, nature,
Form: Haibun
A Honeybee
I am a honeybee,
an indefatigable worker
I work just as hard as an ant.
I don't work alone, of course
I have a colony behind me!
I'm a crucial part of the ecosystem
You'll find me feeding on nectar
or pollen in the meadow, in the garden,
in the park, even roadside.
I'm not far wherever flowers are available.
I make
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Categories:
honeybee, humor, imagery, insect,
Form: Personification
Honey Bee
Soft golden brown, so plain to see,
A solitary honeybee
Busy buzzing from bloom to bloom
No more bees though plenty of room.
Fireflies seem fewer anymore
Where thousands glowed in days of yore.
Passenger pigeons once filled skies
But ladies’ plumes brought their demise.
Stars still twinkle but seem less bright;
Driven dimmer by city light.
More children are alone at night
As deadbeat fathers
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Categories:
honeybee, children, farm, father, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Irony Is
Honeybee
you say you are
just one of many -
but you help
my flowers grow
and you always
sweeten my day
Skylark
you say your song
is just ordinary -
but your melody
is my morning sonata
it makes my heart sing
a song of hope
while the sky
is still dark
Friend
you say you
are nobody special -
but the irony is:
that is exactly
what makes you
special
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Categories:
honeybee, bird, friend,
Form: Free verse
Honeybee
honeybee
by Michael R. Burch
love was a little treble thing?
prone to sing
and sometimes to sting
Keywords/Tags: Love, Honey, Bee, Honeybee, Honeypot, Honeycomb, Nectar, Clover, Sweet, Sweets, Humor, Humorous, Light Verse, Treble, Song, Songbird, Sing, Singing, Buzz, Buzzing, Abuzz, Hive, Queen, Drone, Worker, Sting, Be Free, Relationship, Relationships
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Categories:
honeybee, bird, funny love, humor,
Form: Epigram
Honeybee
You float in mid-air ever so bubbly
Your unimaginable sweetness caught me
You turn and swirl like there's no limit
You aim and strike when you got hurt
My sweet little honeybee
Your smile can be an eye-catchy
Even since when you're just a baby
Your tender and soft touch is adored by many
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Categories:
honeybee, baby, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Blank verse
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