Cautionary Tale
Before a flower you chance to pick,
pick a flower without bees.
Bees sting painfully and so quick.
So, quick, you need to get the wound
wound tightly to dispel the pain.
Pain you’d never have felt if only,
only you had looked before.
For the Murisopsis My Name Scavenger Hunt prompt–A Daisy Chain Poem
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Thanks so much for the advice, Judy 😀
~David
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Before you sniff a flower sweet
Sweet and fragrant to the bee
Be(e) warned to shake the blossom
Blossom home of bees that sting
Sting the nose as you breathe
Breathe a bee and you will rue
Rue forgetting to shake before…
You inspired a poetic response!! I love this cautionary tale of noses and bees! Bravo!!
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I love inspiring poetic responses!!! Thanks for this one.
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What a great poem for a form that tends toward stilted poems. Yours isn’t. I love the use of “so quick” and “so, quick” and the two meanings/pronunciations of “wound.”
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This was harder to do that I imagined. Thanks for the kind words.
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Ouch! As to bee stings, mosquito bites and other itchy, allergic reactions that may happen on our skin, here is a QUICK EASY SAFE FIX. It is simply MEAT TENDERIZER, moistened with water (saliva in a pinch, perhaps?) and scrubbed into the sting site briskly. The first time I used it myself was for a scorpion sting (in my dish drainer, for heavens sake.) I rushed to the clinic anyway, just in case. He didn’t believe me until I showed him the uninflamed sting site and the smashed scorpion.
So the poisonous enzymes break down quickly. It saved one highly allergic friend from a hospital stay on our way to the airport. A bee flew in the window and down his collar. He slammed on the brakes, terrified of not being able to breathe–yet again. But his only reaction after applying the meat tenderizer (now always in the car and my bag) was a flat 3 inch wide pink mesa with a teeny dot–and relief. It even worked on old infected mosquito bites on a camping stranger in seconds.
I believe I read about it in Readers Digest decades ago. Maybe keep some close in marked old pill bottles in car, pocket or purse. You never know.
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Wow. I answered you but it didn’t seem to stick. I have a jar of meat tenderizer in my medicine drawer as well. This reminds me I have to go organize it so I can easily find it.
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Yes, I have some in my medicine drawer but am reminded I need to reorganize so I can find it.
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