Bee-Busy-ness

The bees break a monotony you wouldn’t 

best as sacrosanct; all as busy as, and all 

insistent they’ll need water in the birdbath 

it is a display of persistence I cannot fake 

interest in; with this taking a spell from an 

unenviable task of nectar gathering, they 

circle the thin water smear, skating to the 

edges in controlled fine-paddle-landings 

stopping and sampling moisture I’ve been 

surreptitiously adding; it is amazing - I am 

ignored now as if just a non-invasive part 

of the whole scene - or they reason it that 

way, slaking their fill, and flying off in their 

inimitable display of bee-busy-ness 

© 4 September 2014, I. D. Carswell 

The illustration shown is from Michael Russell - who is a landscape and nature photographer: mrussellphotography.com