Is sipping from the Milky Way
like sipping from a flower?
I ask the bee and butterfly
but they just buzz or flutter by,
so I tip my tongue to the yellow
button heart of feverfew
and get wildly drunk
on its pollen-sugared dew.
Kim M. Russell, 25th February 2019
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille: Sip
Mish is our host this week and she has us all sipping!
writing in north norfolk 
Oh I do love the rhymes you have used… feverfew, had never heard that name before, love it.
I would love to get drunk again
on bloom like that
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It’s a great herb from the daisy family that has a wide range of medicinal uses, mainly as an anti-inflammatory and pain killer, especially for migraine headaches and rheumatoid arthritis. It has also been used to help with infertility, as well as problems with menstruation and childbirth.
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“button heart of feverfew”
That is so flippin’ adorable.
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Feverfew looks like a daisy, very cute, but it is a very powerful herb.
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Oh I love the rhymes…..the sipping, the bees and butterflies, and getting “wildly drunk
on its pollen-sugared dew”. I feel druink with spring reading this! Now if we just just jump from February to May!!! 🙂 And PS: the daisy, with the sunflower, are my favorite flowers. 🙂
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Thank you, Lill! I hope you’re having a great time. Although I love tulips very much, I also love daisies and sunflowers. 🙂
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Oh, lovely – bright and golden and springlike. This really made me smile.
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😊🌼
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what a bright sunshiney poem! lovely flowers too. often in my garden they grew
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Thank you, Eric!
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The rhymes have this tripping (sipping) along.
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Thanks Jane.
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This is incredibly beautiful, Kim! ❤️ I love the rhyming and imagery here which fills the mind with hope and all things sweet! 😀 “I tip my tongue to the yellow button heart of feverfew and get wildly drunk on its pollen-sugared dew.” Wowww!! 😍😍
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Thanks Sanaa! 😊🌼🌼🌼
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This is wonderful Kim. I love the inclusion of feverfew as well, I think I have some in the garden (if it survived the winter.)
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🙂
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Must be some potent stuff!! I love the opening. I think this milky way is too chunky to sip on!!
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Thanks Dwight!
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I sense the answer is yes 🙂
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🙂
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You are queen of sip with this one! Makes me hungry for those pollen polluted Spring nights to come. I enjoyed your moment of epic fantasy as you tipped up the Milky Way.
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Thank you, Glenn. I need some fantasy to keep me going.
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I love the shift from Milky Way to the yellow button of the flower. Get drunk on pollen-sugared dew. Spring fever must be coming soon.
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Thanks Grace! I’m looking for ward to spring fever. I’ve already started to spring clean my study.
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I love feverfew. I encourage it in my garden as my bees like it. I love the question you ask in the first lines. I wish I knew the answer. Maybe one day….
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🙂
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This is charming, Kim, and hints of Spring!
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I’m looking forward to the first butterfly and bee in our garden – it means spring is here.
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I like the rhymes, and the glimpse of summer on this gloomy day.
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Thank you, Maggie!
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I like the whimsical and airy vibe…especially asking the bee and the butterfly. How fun is that!
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Thank you, Mish!
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Such a cute poem. 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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Nice!!
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Cheers!
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This is a wonderful piece Kim, and I love the butterfly / flutter by play!
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I’m pleased you like it, Rob!
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Lovely rhyme and rhythm to this poem…feverfew and spring fever too!
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Thanks Lynn!
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I love this! Feverfew is one of my favorite garden flowers. I used to have them all over my back yard. Unfortunately, I learned my dog is highly allergic and had to pull them all up.
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Thank you, Linda!
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I liked the thought of getting drunk on dew.
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Thanks Frank.
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Bee Spiral
Sipping
For Queen..:)
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🙂
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:)!!
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I love the rhymes in here Kim, especially ‘I ask the bee and butterfly but they just buzz or flutter by’ 🙂💖🦋
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Th a k you Xenia! 🐝🌼🌞
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Enjoying that we don’t know if the voice of the poem is a human – or that feverfew is pretty darn potent!
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I love the images of becoming wildly drunk on nature’s gifts. This poem makes me happy!
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