Bee Carol

[Jen]

The Bee Carol
by Carol Ann Duffy

Silently on Christmas Eve,
the turn of midnight’s key;
all the garden locked in ice —
a silver freeze —
except the winter cluster of the bees.

Flightless now and shivering,
around their Queen they cling;
every bee a gift of heat;
she will not freeze
within the winter cluster of the bees.

Bring me for my Christmas gift
a single golden jar;
let me taste the sweetness there,
but honey leave
to feed the winter cluster of the bees.

Come with me on Christmas Eve
to see the silent hive —
trembling stars cloistered above —
and then believe,
bless the winter cluster of the bees.

"The Bee Carol" by Carol Ann Duffy from The Bees. © Faber & Faber, Inc., 2011. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)

[riverbee]

very cool jen!  enjoyed, read several times and printed off!  thank you!

[Jen]

Hey River, isn't that just sweetest 

I didn't realize that the stanza's were not seperated, I just fixed that.

[riverbee]

jen, the poem,  it's just really cool.....so very true..........and bees are a gift to us and everything we work hard for and they give/gift  to us!!!!

[Jen]

This was what got me ~sniff~

Flightless now and shivering,
around their Queen they cling