If you Google “solitary breeze”
Bees, that is. I meant bees;
the breeze is never lonely,
how it cuddles your ear,
whispers into it, something
about flowers, pollen,
the baskets on your legs,
you. You, who live in a
nest by yourself,
no need to make honey,
just nectar in your veins.
Sun shines through your
wings; you are the sun,
the only one,
the only song
you know.
For Open Link Night at dVerse Poets. Also, I got my contributor’s copy of Cider Press Review today! It’s their last print issue, and I really like how my poem pairs with the one on the page next to it.
Marilyn Rauch Cavicchia 
smiles…i like the playfulness of your opening as it made me think of messed up google searches i have done…a bit sad for the bee…what fun is being the sun if there is no one to revolve around it…or better, to share it with…
Thanks! This did arise when I meant to write “solitary bees” but thought “breeze” instead.
Congratulations on publishing! I love you use Google in the title, will this put you at the top of the search?
Oh, I hadn’t thought of that! Maybe every poem should be a Google poem.
Very clever and made me feel very sweet and feeling the same about you.
Thanks so much!
Love the whimsy and musicality in this piece. Esp love these lines:
“You, who live in a
nest by yourself,
no need to make honey,
just nectar in your veins.”
It reads contentment. Awesome work.
Thank you! That image of a bee’s wings, with their stained-glass-like veins, is one I think of often. As for the whimsy, it’s rare that I’d use a word like “cuddle” in a poem, but I dared myself to keep it.
This is great! I love the curve at the beginning, between breeze and bees. Then the breeze never being lonely!
Thank you! I wanted the breeze to be sort of companionable but insistent …
Oh, I like this very much! That third stanza especially is just luminous.
Thank you, Kelly!
Such wonderful music in this poem!
Thanks, Jennifer! I thought of you. 🙂
I like the way this boils down to its essence, the honeyed sun of existence within the bee, alone and gloriously nectared!
a little too beautiful 🙂 somehow it reminds me of my first crush, i used to call him sunshine!!