This week let’s write a poem with the words bee, charge and likely in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
Living Poetry 
The Charge
There’s likely to bee
a large charge to the flowers.
Much humming and flapping
to get the best table
for nectar and color,
and drink in the summer today.
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Posted by nolchafox | July 17, 2023, 7:53 AMHa! Love the humming and flapping. Nice work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | July 17, 2023, 7:42 PMThanks so much!
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Posted by nolchafox | July 17, 2023, 8:16 PMDon’t swat at the bee
and cause it to charge,
for you never know
where the swarm is likely to be!
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Posted by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris | July 17, 2023, 9:28 PMGood advice!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | July 17, 2023, 9:37 PMThank you Bartholomew! Nothing worse than a nest full of angry bees … except maybe one livid queen bee! 🐝
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Posted by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris | July 17, 2023, 11:49 PMLovely, short and sweet and wise.
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Posted by Dan | July 19, 2023, 7:24 AMThank you Dan! 🐝
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Posted by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris | July 19, 2023, 7:26 AMSo much buzzing in her head
She is likely to forget
and that will be her charge
that thing
that one thing
she did not wish to forget
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Posted by Dan | July 19, 2023, 7:41 AMOkay, I realized after hitting send that I wasn’t finished, so to be true to the prompt, PLEASE permit this completed version. (See, this is what happens when I haven’t had my coffee yet)
So much buzzing in her head
She is likely to forget
and that will be her charge
that thing
that one thing
she did not wish to forget
But does a bee ever forget his love of honey?
Even when the flowers fade away
No, I think not
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Posted by Dan | July 19, 2023, 7:53 AMWell done! Let’s hope the bees never forget.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | July 19, 2023, 6:04 PM