16European Honey bee

European honey bee (Apis mellifera)

Bee collecting nectar from a mallow blossom

Moving lightly over the earth
with a heavy load of pollen,
her shift ending pretty much
the same as the last.

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No shadows left in a world wrapped in bee dreams,
new pollen flavors for each minute of the day,
a garden bar that never closes.
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A bee peers out from a noir mystery,
listening for her Queen, still tempted
by the dark delights in the garden.

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Lured back to the hive after a heist gone bad,
a pair of pollen smugglers ignore
the bright chaos, their crimes darken the sky.
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Returning to an unruly hive after a secret mission,
a honey bee's sunlit swagger sings
of an endless landscape of pollen.

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Bent on misadventure, a streaming
squadron of bees dissolves into the sun,
unhooking their anchor to my garden.

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Backyard Beekeeping - Apis mellifera

3-story hive is up, bees are doing fine.
I'm a backyard beekeeper now.

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The day's last flight,
outrunning the sun in a search for pollen,
a bladed bridge surrenders to a frozen leap.

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A golden trickster has the best pair of wings
this side of the Moon.

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A stingerless drone hasn't forgotten how to seduce,
his large compound eyes see through the queen's charade
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The light dances over a honey bee's impossible glamour,
star of my backyard hall of mirrors,
leaving traces of her passion
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We're rapidly running out of winter,
and a summer squadron flies
out of the past like a mirage,
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The ongoing adventures of a honey bee,
her unpredictable twists a mutiny against the sky.

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