Swarm
It’s the dance of the bees with drone after drone
leaving the hive and the queen on her throne.
Carlos the Bee guy seems most disconcerted,
and I wish that we had been sooner alerted.
The air’s raining bees. They are buzzing and winging
into my gazebo and soon might be stinging.
We leap from the hammock, Morrie and me.
He’s licking his nose and I’m slapping my knee.
We run for the house with one bee giving chase.
Its wings scrape my ear and my arm and my face.
We get to the house before it gets mean,
but again and again, it butts into the screen.
Honey is sweet and well worth its labors,
but creatures that make it do not make good neighbors.
When I tried to hire someone to clear off the empty lot I own next to my house, they ran into a problem—two hives of aggressive bees that made clearing the land impossible. Carlos the dreadlocked bee keeper is coming today to remove the combs of one hive that is reachable and to trap the bees to move to his own apiary, but when he came to check out the situation yesterday, the event described in the above poem occurred. He’s back today, and Morrie and I are going to stay inside!!!
Prompts today are dance, drone, raining and disconcert
This photo and all photos without attribution on this blog have been taken by me.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I had a similar experience with ground wasps in TX while watering bushes. I did the dance too!
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You’ve turned a unpleasant experience into a hilarious poem.
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Stay safe, dear Judy!
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Do be safe — I hope you’re not allergic to bees — and I also hope they’ll be able to take care of both hives!
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So glad you have someone to take the bees to a new home. They’re precious, of course (except when in attack mode, no doubt). Love the photo!
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More coming.. of the bee man!!
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I took that in La Manzanilla, I believe two years ago. I took a whole series of that bee climbing around my straw but this is my favorite. King of the mountain.
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Scarey
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Ouch
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He’s coming back today. Will be interesting to see what has happened.
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