Bee-songs and essays

“Evocative; a beautiful symphony of nature, childhood, and the wild-ness in both.”“A keen power of observation; skilled writing; beautiful and evocative descriptions.”
The New York Times Spelling Bee attracts a large following of enthusiastic word lovers who delight in ferreting out a hidden list of words of from a seemingly-random array of seven letters. A handful of Bee solvers delights in the challenge of composing poetry, essays, and humorous items with words from the daily puzzle. Bee-songs and essays compiles a selection of work by one of these “Hive poets” known as “peregrine from the rocky shore.”
This volume, the first in a series, includes the complete 50-poem series of Bee-songs, short poems that celebrate the beauty and diversity of the photographs in The New York Times daily Spelling Bee forum, including several not previously published; thirty-five essays on natural history, childhood reminiscences, farm life, and the rocky shore, inspired by words in the Spelling Bee puzzle; and a farrago of humorous essays, poems, and parodies offered in affectionate appreciation of the Spelling Bee and its lively online community.
Bee-songs | poems and essays by peregrinesoftcover, 6x9 (15x23 cm), 143 pages, October 2024ISBN 979-8-87-543658-1 9798875436581 American booksellers are listed at right. For international booksellers, search on the title or ISBN.
Selected poems from Bee-songs
Aerial Bee-song 44
To meet a blossom in the air is no small feat;A touch of outstretched stamens, wind, and trembling wings: A moment’s meeting, poised in airy grace—Each flower lifts its fragrant face, alight, to me;No two alike, each one unique, like distant stars: A touch, a kiss, and then away, away—This is the rhythm of my day among the flowers:A thousand moments balancing on wind and wings To touch the faces of a thousand blooms—
RaptureBee-song 40
There is rapture in the small life of a bee;Light and color saturate the summer air: I am in the light and color, they in me—Intoxicating scents and heady fragrancesawaken dreams I had not thought I dared to dream: Wondrous worlds far away from here—As I move in sun and shadow, flower to flower,I carry golden threads that unify the world: Weaving all together mystically—
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