Honeybee, Hagerman, ID
Thanks to Naomi Shihab Nye’s new book, Honeybee, my summer has been spent observing the honeybees.
This photo reminded me of the poem on the back of the book, “Honeybee”.
Dipping into the flower zone
Soaking up directions
Finding our ways in the dark
Fat little pollen baskets
Pluming our legs
Round dance
Waggle dance
Only 5 species of honeybee
Among 20,000 bee species
Out there in the far fields
Something has changed but
You don’t know what it is yet
And everything depends
On us
For more poems this Poetry Friday visit here.
Happy Reading. Have you signed up for the Kidlitosphere Conference yet? Email me for details.
Jone
