Hive

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Hive

I know the day has started. I hear them stir around.
Yet here I am sealed in my room, making not a sound.
I rarely sleep eight hours, but usually six or four.
Yet this guest room has no window. It only has a door.

With no bird songs to waken me, no sunlight and no dog,
I have gone on slumbering, sleeping like a log.
It’s a deprivation chamber—a cell, a cave, a den;
so I’ll just go on sleeping, perhaps ‘til nine or ten.

All in all, I am the perfect kind of guest.
No need to entertain me. I’ve only come to rest.
In two more days please crack the door of my little hive.
Perhaps just flip me over to see if I’m alive.

Certainly as hostess, my sister is the best,
and I am sure she has some plans for her newest guest;
but for today to leave me be is my sincere request.
After weeks of traveling, Sunday’s my day of rest!

Note: Today marks my twenty-eighth day of travel since I left home and yesterday it was thirteen hours of travel from the time I left for the airport at 3 a.m. to the time I arrived at my sister’s house. When I awoke this Sunday morning after seven and a half hours sleep—the most sleep I’ve had since I left home—I still couldn’t stir before I’d written my daily poem.

When my sister and brother-in-law built their house and made their guest room windowless, the joke was that no guest would want to stay for very long. Suffice it to say that I know how to turn the broadest hint to my favor!!! Thus, this poem.This one’s for you, Patti. Please put the coffee on.  I’m about to make an appearance.

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10 thoughts on “Hive”

  4. Jan's avatarJan

    No window? Yikes. I am claustrophobic just thinking about it. When I visit perhaps I can sleep on the sofa…. The hive is not my dive of choice. The cell would be hell. Jan

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Ha…My sister’s house definitely not a dive, but hive actually connotes a coziness it does possess..nice for a few days which is actually all we should subject our hosts to anyway, even though she would make me comfortable for as long as I wished. Thanks for your comments…I know they were made and taken humorously…

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      I feel rested and at home in my sister’s house. Trying to get my iPhone sim card set up and a case bought. Details details…Won’t go into the problems involved. Hope you are feeling cozy in my house.

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