subtexts
we cross the invisible
flight lines of bees

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Meredith Ackroyd

Meredith Ackroyd lives in a hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia with her husband and two children. She is a graduate of the MFA program in children's literature at Hollins University, where she studied the writing of poetry for children. Her poetry has been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, and tinywords, among other publications. In 2021, she won a Touchstone Individual Poems Award from The Haiku Foundation.

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    Plan Bee is always a good idea!!!

    Wonderful haiku, keeps me smiling, beautifully done!
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    subtexts
    we cross the invisible
    flight lines of bees

    —MEREDITH ACKROYD

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    I can relate to this after a group of buff-tailed bumblebees took over a spare birdhouse (we have plenty). They make for great companions (both bees and bumblebees)!

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    nectar harvest…
    the married wings in flight
    of honey bees

    Alan Summers
    HAIKU DIALOGUE – first raspberry ed. KJMunro (July 2019)

    Note:
    (Honey bees belong to the order of Hymenoptera, which refers to the wings of the insects… A plausible etymology involving Hymen, the Ancient Greek god of marriage, is that these insects have “married wings” in flight. Derived from WIKIPEDIA)

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  2. Naturous, and by you Meredith, its time so well seen!
    __ I see, under those 'flight lines' the squirrels as they -squirrel away- their winter larder.

    in the thought of snow
    as goldenrods turn to dust
    acorns squirreled away

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