POEM

Bees

by Norman Rowland Gale

Goldenly Girdled Celloist

Posted September 15, 2000 · Issue 86


You voluble,
Velvety
Vehement fellows
That play on your
Flying and
Musical cellos,
All goldenly
Girdled you
Senerade clover,
Each artist in
Bass but a
Bibulous rover!

You passionate,
Powdery
Pastoral bandits,
Who gave you your
Roaming and
Rollicking mandates?
Come out of my
Foxglove; come
Out of my roses
You bees with the
Plushy and
Plausible noses!


Norman Rowland Gale (1892-1942) was an English poet.
Andrzej Krauze is an illustrator, poster maker, cartoonist, and painter who illustrates regularly for HMS Beagle, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, Bookseller, and New Statesman.


Tell us what you think.
FeedbackFeedback


Previous Poems

Transplant
by John Stone (Posted September 1, 2000 · Issue 85)
To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut, on Which I Dined This Day,
Monday, April 26, 1784
by William Cowper (Posted August 4, 2000 · Issue 84)
Academic Termination
by Lynn Kozlowski (Posted July 21, 2000 · Issue 83)
Observer Effects on Weather at the Gulf of Carpentaria
by Michael Grove (Posted July 7, 2000 · Issue 82)
Experimental Protocol
by William John Watkins (Posted June 23, 2000 · Issue 81)
The Angler
by Thomas Buchanan Reed (Posted June 9, 2000 · Issue 80)

more