Rallentanda

Rallentanda

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

A Bee


a bee
staggers out
of the peony

Matsuo Basho







lands on a drink
striped sozzled and buzzing 
too woozy to attack

Midweek Motif Poets United

15 comments:

  1. I love the Basho poem, and really smiled at your continuation!

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  2. I almost swallowed a bee, drowning in my margarita, once upon a time.

    Nice pick-up on the Basho.

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  3. Basho's and yours paint two different worlds within so short a space. Bravo.

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  4. Well, I can't say that I feel sorry for the bee. I would think it would be happy!

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  5. Bees actually do get drunk on pollen. Like people, sometimes they get rowdy

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  6. Excellent continuation here!!❤️ I love the image of the bee resting on a drink striped .. powerful!

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  7. Drunk on sweet nectar. I usually watch my drinks on summer days as sometimes they do fly into the cup.

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  8. Lets hope you allowed him to stay a little while to sober up or else he'll be in trouble when he gets back to the hive.

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  9. Back at ya ... I like your creative mind!

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