The hummingbird feeder is

The social hubbub of

The garden, where they love

To hover with each other

Round the nectar bar.

There’s a flutter of feelings there,

A blur of rainbows,

And also a bumble of bees;

Briskly buzzing zingers

With their wicked little stingers

With those little drops of poison.

As often as they come

The birds bid them begone.

“Shoo bees, do bees,

Birds only please!”

But the brushed off bees buzz back,

Hell-bent on missions arial,

And quickly up for another trial,

They never, ever leave the birds alone.

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One day I was watching a livestream video of a hummingbird feeder. I noticed that the sugar water also drew bees, which seemed to irritate the birds. The birds kept shooing them off, but the bees always came back. I thought that was funny, so I wrote a poem about it.

Matthan Whatley

*Matthan submitted this funny poem to the blog last year. Unfortunately, health constraints prevented us from posting it until today. My apologies to our audience and to Matthan –Blog Editors