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prose on poetry Makes one wonder:
as honey is to poetry and the bee is to the poet,
in the time of producing and being thus separated,
in its consumption and separation does honey
pine for its creator as the bee for its magnum opus?
One of the purposes of Poetry
One of the purposes of Poetry is to cast ordinary things in new or unusual lights. I confess that I have never thought of bees and their honey in that way before. Some ten years before I began to write Poetry seriously, I had considered---and done quite a bit of reading in preparation for---becoming a beekeeper. Still never considered bees and honey as poets and Poetry. Your poem has widened and expanded my view tonight; thank you, sir.
Starward
Beekeeping is quite
Beekeeping is quite fascinating. We never undertook it but I remember as a child being taken to the forest to go honey hunting from wild bee hives that have been built into tree hollows and such.
here is poetry that doesn't always conform
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