Dave Little wrote the first draft of this poem. Rock Rat wrote the second draft. This is the first of a collaborative poetry project! We encourage you to reach out and send in your work, or request a piece to play with. Photography is encouraged, but not mandated. Hopefully, we will get enough pieces to throw together some kind of photo/poetry album and distribute to each other.
Much love, brother Dave
~Rock Rat
Oh, I hear it
That rum-buzz-buzzing
Lilting on the wind
A lover ever nearing
For you, this meal
Powdered confection of affection
Transmogrify it as honey
Your sticky sweetness complete
Who else is there?
Drift down from above!
They tussel my petals
Stay, will you, please?
Tender fluff rolls overhead
Strange promises they keep
As showering crystal droplets
Upon my gentle leaf
Sensuous whispers drizzle down
Rolling almost to burst
Drenching me in adoration
Quenching this aching thirst
Be gone now, lover
Dewy morning draws neigh
The splendid strangest one
Returns as beaming light
This brilliant fleeting paramour
Without whom I wither
Tenaciously grins from above
Star of my eye
So many hearts abound
A resource ne're exhausted
Unveiling fields of sentiment
Stoking still this yearning
To name them all
Would stifle my yoke
To call these few
Becomes as love bespoke
Earth holds me steady
Water there to drink
Sun sustains these days
Pollinators come, my ilk
Like wind dispersing seed
The final season sets
I am now content
To leave.