First Bee

A boozy bumblebee flew
from May blossom drenched with dew
and alighted on the ledge
near a blooming hawthorn hedge.
After a dour start to spring,
flirtatious buds are bursting
and daisies dance in the grass.

Insects are parched for sweet sips
of perfumed pollen from lips
of wayward woodbine flowers
tumbling from bushy bowers.
A bevy of bees in May
will be worth a heap of hay
and, in June, a silver spoon.

Kim M. Russell, 1st May 2025

Image by Gaspar Costa on Unsplash

It’s Thursday and time to meet the bar at the dVerse Poets Pub, with Laura’s prompt, which is being hosted by Punam on her behalf.

Laura’s prompt begins with extracts from poems about May: Tess Taylor’s ‘May Day’ and StaceyAnn Chin’s ‘First Green’:  our theme is May, the first of something, or anything mathematical

Our challenge is to write Alliterisen, created by Udit Bhatia, 7-line poems (septet) containing a set number of alliterations per line and adhering to a specific syllable structure. They can be either complex or rhyming. We can choose either the Complex Alliterisen, which has 7 lines, 2 alliterations on every line, with a syllabic count of 7 or more in a strict pattern; or the Rhyming Alliterisen, which also has 7 lines, alliteration in every line, 7 syllables per line and an aabbccd rhyme scheme. We should write 1 or more 7 line verses in one of these styles.

I chose to write about the first bee in May in the Rhyming Alliterisen.

24 thoughts on “First Bee”

    2. I was a bit worried overnight that my comment seemed flimsy..so I feel like adding that I got the premise of the verse, but enjoyed the scene set, the atmosphere itself for its own wonderful tribute to what you so clearly are close to. Even when I watch films I am sometimes more entranced by the landscape than the story…just quickly wanted to add this, not to think that my initial words meant little.

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