I went out to the garden
looking for spelling bees
there were many beside me—
a bumble bee entered foxglove’s bell
it was not the one I seek
then one buzzed my head
anxious at my presence
to say the word
say the word
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dVerse prompt for a quadrille using the word spell
great souls in little bodies—- Virgil Book 4
I walked into a field of clover
yet not one bee did I see
“Where can a blind man go who is pursued by bees?” Pablo Neruda
He knows not to go in the clover patch. He can smell its sweetness and cannot enter. His forgotten place he longs for— along the shore of the Mediterranean with wind moving in his hair.
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dVerse prompt on questioning in poetry. Answering Neruda.
LET CLOVER GROW
FEED BEES
DON’T MOW
bees gather pollen
make honey to eat so sweet
to me it’s a sneeze
how my weeping eyes
itch and burn for fallen trees
remember the bee
hives on the branches
they really will replant this
by giving them time
we can defeat this
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dVerse prompt on “gathering” in quadrille form as the pollen is falling in my neighborhood and the logging trucks are coming to clear cut the neighbor’s property
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