There is a longstanding custom of telling the bees important events such as births, deaths and marriages that happen in the life of a beekeeper.
Bee Folklore and Superstition: Telling the Bees — Under the influence!
Nature will provide
There’s enough for you and me
Riches all around
haiku and images ©copyright rp 2016
What Goes Around
At last I can leave
the window ajar
to sense those languid
sounds of the street
like life itself returning
from some distant place
a world woken up
by a warm gentle kiss
Promise too in the bee’s
tender tap on my window
busy on beatnik rounds –
I am wishing him luck
on a maverick wind
in the cool melodious rain
poem and image © copyright David Francis Barker 2011
*First published in Shot Glass Journal in 2011
