Short Beekeeper Poems

beekeeper collects
                    honey with protective gear

                     gets stung by wife's words...

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There was a beekeeper named Floyd
who had thousands of bees deployed.
He neglected their hives
a threat to their lives.
Soon thereafter Floyd became void....

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There was a beekeeper named Jives
Who found a rash on his thighs.
The doctor said be at peace,
Nothing to fear in the least.
You simply have too many hives....

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THICK AND SWEET
LIKE HONEY
YOUR LOVE
DRIPPED UPON ME
COVERED ME
LIKE A NEW SKIN
IMMOBILIZED
I AM ABSORBED
INTO THE WARM AMBER
STICKING LANGUID
IN MY PORES
TO WAIT
FOR MY FAITHFUL BEEKEEPER....

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One autumn day I saw the leaves fall down
I watched the deer as they danced around
I saw the flowers turn oh so brown
As Jack Frost let us know he is in town
The beekeeper is putting his bees to bed
As the honey flow is almost dead
The end of autumn is what some dread...

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boisterous beekeeper was bathed, bound and belted.
besieged by bevy of beauties whose beeswax was melted.
fickle, frantic, frolicking friendly freedom, freshly felted.
persnickety, lickety-splickety personified, pointed and pelted.
On a sweaty, snarly summers eve swiggled, swayed and swelted....

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She protruded from a background well-versed in mythology
Riddled in metaphors
Steeped in false parameters
Yet gifted in iambic pentametre
She coughed a bloodied bee onto her lap
and let the sparks fly.

She married a beekeeper in two syllables
And bit her tongue
Whilst the lines absolved her dichotomy of life
She tripped over her song's rhyme
She whistled a white-hole onto the page
And dropped herself inside.

Her jar will always be half-empty, with complete thoughts....

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