Welcome to The Bee Hive

"No Bees, no honey, no work, no money." Old Proverb

Welcome to the official website of The Bee Hive.

The Bee Hive is a group of novices, professionals, amateurs, high school and college beekeepers who are concerned with the mystery and management of bees. Our goal is to learn about the life of bees and promote their beneficial contribution to earth.

The original group sponsoring this blog broke into other groups and the blog is now the property of Nan Sherrill Smith, a concerned citizen who wants to help save bees.

Email may also be sent to nan.sherrill@gmail.com


"The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew
With golden treasures load his little thighs
And steer his distant journey through the skies."
--- John Gay

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Poem Queen, you are fathomed

Queen, you are fathomed



Exalted life
                    this
not because you know
slavish attention
                            or sit
bathed in the royal jellies
     and rarer distillates

not because it commences
            backlit all


by droning buzz and the mellow

            scent of lilac

             but for your ignorance of desire

             for your cloistering, Liege


Never wondering
                 what tastes abound
              in distant clusters

                                               so rich is your interior
                                                your fecundity

                          your mulitple dark imaginings

Never saying
                           as I do

Why     and again     Why

Never saying
                    as I do
                    to the world of surrounding combs

          Do you think I may someday escape


Joseph Spece