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Fright of the Bumble Bee

Why fuzzy buzzer, guzzler of nectar,
do you shun flowers, buzz Heliodora’s skin?
Do you surmise, if you nuzzle and taste her,
the savor is sweet and sorely bitter—
the bite-back by Eros of every creature?
Are you advising lovers twice-bitten?
I know fuzzy buzzer, guzzler of nectar,
why you shun flowers, buzz seductive skin.
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Blossom-bloated honey-bee,
Best epicure of flora,
Abseils up a buttercup
And lights on Heliodora.
Sweetest love (says he to me)
Must sting you even so.
Buzz-buzz-buzz, little brother,
I know. I know.I know.
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I fear there’s a bee in the bowers
Who has bared his behind to the flowers
Preferring the aura
Of Heliodora
Round whom he’s been buzzing for hours

He’s finding her rather a puzzle
Alas, should he buzz off or guzzle?
The dilemma before
Each perplexed paramour
Is whether to nix or to nuzzle.
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Soliloquy

You’ve left spring blooms
oh bee, you’re touching
Heliodora’s skin.
But now you’re there
you’re wondering
if you should enter in.
To be a bee or not a bee
is very puzzling when
a women offers sweetness
but you turn around and then
the fruit becomes most bitter.
What’s the message that she sends?
To stay, to go, to hover round,
to sleep, perchance to dream
and escape the heartache of false love?
Ah, there’s the rub. It seems
I know it well. Those stings,
those arrows I once thought
were messages from above.
But now you’d better fly away.
Oh bee, it’s not to be today,
tomorrow, or any other day.
That message I’ll replay.
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The deadline has now passed for translating Melager's bee poem. (Translations of Meleager's first mosquito poem will still be accepted until Friday, 3 October 2014.)

When it comes time for the popular vote on the Translation Bake-Off main event, everyone can also vote for ONE of the following eleven entries as their favorite:

Post #4, by Maryann Corbett
Honeybee, dweller in flowers, explain why you've left them. For my sake?

Post #7, by Mary McLean
Bee, why do you forsake the flora,

Post #8, by Susan McLean
Bloom-dwelling bee, why are you nuzzling the skin

Post #13, by Birthe Myers
Bee, why leave the fragrant flora,

Post #14, by Roger Slater (Bob Schechter)
Oh flower-loving bee, say why

Post #19, by Ann Drysdale
Bee who belongs in blossoms, tell me this –

Post #20, by Susan McLean
Blossom-dwelling bee, why do you land

Post #21, by RCL (Ralph Larosa)
Why fuzzy buzzer, guzzler of nectar,

Post #22, by John Whitworth
Blossom-bloated honeybee,

Post #23, by Ann Drysdale
I fear there’s a bee in the bowers

Post #24, by Sharon Fish Mooney
You’ve left spring blooms

Wonderful job, all of you.
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