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when the bees stream

around their hives



watch out for snow

beware of showers


          .

some bees like rattles

so their keepers



beat pots and pans

to call them to the hives



          .

a hive gives 

new meaning

to flowers

          .

after a few days

without its hive



a honeybee

dies of loneliness


          .

spring honey

is sweeter than

autumn honey


          .

a bee
shoogles

out from
inside

the fox-
glove


          .

sea

on the flowering
mountain


salt

in the honey-
comb


          .
 

love is
honey voiced

with a heart
of gall


          .

honey heals
wounds & burns
Aristotle, tr. D. M. Balme, History of Animals: Books VIII-X
Maurice Maeterlick, tr. Alfred Sutro, The Life of the Bee
Basho, tr. Sam Hamill, The Little Book of Haiku 
Antonio Machado 
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