Snack

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birds, haiku, insects, magpie, miner bees, nature, poetry, pollen

miner bees busy
black and white with pollen gold
quick snack for magpies

Smudge

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bees, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, pollen, wildlife, window

Irate honey bee
released from kitchen window
a smudge of pollen

Promise

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bees, blackcurrants, flowers, fruit, garden, nature, poem, poetry, pollen, promise, summer, tanka

On watching bees indulge   (Tanka)

Blackcurrant flowers
Unassuming little blooms
Beloved by the bees
Promise of rich summer fruits
Blackbirds must wait for their haul

Loot

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bees, flowers, garden, haiku, honey, nature, photograph, photography, pollen, pollenate

Honey bee heads home
Loaded with plundered booty
Flowers get their cut

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Pantaloons

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bees, bumble, haiku, nature, pantaloons, pollen, pollenators, wildlife

A pleasant surprise
Bumble bees on blue blossom
pollen pantaloons

sup

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bees, flowers, haiku, nature, nectar, pollen, sunflowers

 

dusting of pollen
beneath the sunflower vase
no sup for the bees

Herbs

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bees, garden, haiku, humour, pollen, pun, summer, sunshine, thyme, weather

White tailed bumble bees
having the thyme of their lives
Tiny herb flowers

heart of gold

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bees, flowers, garden, haiku, petals, pollen, pollination, weather

 

 

neat as rice paper
fragile white petals attract
bees to flower’s gold

Sneeze dust

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allergies, haiku, hay fever, nature, pollen, sparrows, spring, wildlife

sparrows land in pines
shaking out clouds of pollen
soft golden sneeze dust

haiku – bumblebee

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bee, bumblebee, flowers, insects, nature, pollen, Rhododendron

Bumblebee visits
a vivid rhododendron,
intent on pollen