stuffed clouds like stuffed bears
tut-tut
and
well
Christopher Robin knows
and a blue or green balloon selected
and a mud-caked
bear
attached to string should rise
up in the air
to
find the hive
and do
stuffed bears get stung
or is the lack an
asset
in the Hundred
Acre Wood
unstung
good for a bear and
for
a child
and
I’d think good for bees in there as well
c l couch
(named for C Robin)
photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash
last on (our) dying lips
when
we have killed all the bees
and there are no circles
left in which
to live
we’ll
have fake food
a while
and
then
the last
words might be I love you
said to someone
though there’s
only a dry
Earth
all around
and
the only one to hear be weeping there
and so not unhear
and would not anyway
have
believed
c l couch
for World Bee Day
(21 May)
photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
“Bee in a Purple Field”
(x = space)
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World Bee Day
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No be
Without the bees
(probably a pun
only in English
sorry)
Better living only
With chemicals
I don’t think so
We’ll poison ourselves
There are bloated
Tragic
Precedents
(Bhopal, Deep Horizon, the Valdez)
When we could cooperate
With bees
And live
Everything that can live
Be alive
Our round bears show the way
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C L Couch
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Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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two poems for July
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Watch Your Dogs
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Dogs don’t like fireworks
Many veterans don’t
All kinds of people
Be with them
Sit with them
Support K-9 programs
Support people
Not everyone likes fireworks
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Hello, July
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Hello, July
It’s hot and humid here
Not much more to say
But, well
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There’s a lot of green
And other colors, too
Not like fall
But everything that lives
Does fly and otherwise
Visit us a season
As if
Forever’s come to call on
Bees and butterflies
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The fireflies
Still have a season
Though, like strawberries,
They flourish in June
Around here
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Storms appear and fall
Blow things around
Hot and wet fronts bumping
Around
Generally, we say
We need the water
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Flavor of Hibiscus
Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash
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C L Couch
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(x = space)
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At the Table
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This is Tuesday
I hope this is
Will be
Or has been
A good Tuesday for you
(or across the world
might have been will be)
Even splendid
You are entitled
One of nearly eight billion
People
Your choices, well, that’s
Up to you
And not a matter for
Anything not like a tribunal
Present
If you are a despot, stop it
If you are a lousy neighbor,
Be a better one
But while the sun is out
(and when the moon is out
and that bemusing time
of dusk or dawn)
Take in free breaths
Let them out with gladness
And, dare I say,
Thanksgiving
For sometimes it is an easy Earth
When and where it’s not
Good breathing’s still required
With assistance added,
When needed
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And, by the way,
Honey gets in everything
At table
I’m sure there are tricks
The bees know
Maybe through their knees
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C L Couch
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orange gradient fluid art
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