“Bumblebee at Springtime” – Artist Unknown
fuzzy and fat with spring nectar
industrious colonists ruled by a queen
hive intelligence highly evolved
roles strictly prescribed to conform
with a gender-based preordination
enslaved to the purpose of order
a collective community organism
bright yellow blaze warns the world
their intentions are deadly serious
complex unique comb-and-brush legs
fit to gather the gametes freeborn
among gardens and foodcrops
these life-seeding elements
carried like cargo from hither to yon
in precarious flight under unlikely
undersized wings whose exertions
emit pleasant seasonal music
the falsetto hum Rimsky-Korsakov
brought forth with chaotic tempos
these wretchedly wonderful creatures
the stars in this opera of nature
Poesy plus Polemics 