Poetry Challenge #36-In Memory of Bees

Today as I was walking through the backyards, I noticed bees drunk with happiness, rolling on the golden yellow dandelions. So many flowers! So much nectar! So many bees!

I was about ten years old when I experienced my first bee sting. I stepped (barefoot) on a bee in the driveway, jumped with the surprise and ouch of the sting on my toe, and my leg swelled up above my knee!

I remember earlier bees than that, too:

The bees that chased my next door neighbor when she poked a stick into their ground nest;

The little boy from down the street who rode his bike through a swarm of bees and ran into our house to get away from them.

So many memories, so many stories, all from one word: BEES.

Poetry Challenge #36

In Memory of Bees

Now it’s your turn. What do you think of when you think of bees? Is it an experience you had with them? A lazy, buzzing, summer day? A fascination with the way they live?

Write a poem/story about bees. You might try to write a paragraph first, and then cut away the golden tidbits for use in a poem.

 Maybe cut it by half the words. Then another half.

Add a few words too, so it makes sense. Play with rhythm and maybe rhyme.

Get BUZZZZZY!

Set the timer for 7 minutes.

Start writing!

Don’t think about it too much; just do it.

Wishing for more bee time? Can’t go wrong with a Fleming-Rohmann collaboration like Honeybee. Here’s the link to the read aloud: HONEYBEE THE BUSY LIFE OF APIS MELLIFERA with great info at the back.

And if you want be read more,  here's a list of excellent Children's books about Bees!

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