Music, Flight Of The Bumblebee – Rimsky-Korsakov
“ I The Bumblebee ”
– in bombinate flights – revisited
I am the bumblebee
Said happily plump,
Bumbling with glee
In my furry rump,
Among the flowers
Find devotee’s play,
Thus as to pollinate
On a summery day,
To alert I bombilate
In gentle fellow way,
In black and yellow
Nature fixed to stay,
Pick pollen aplenty
Kissing the flowers,
No matter the many,
While time be mellow
Hence too spread life,
Ne’er destined hollow
In bombinate flights,
Be so the bumblebee
As the gods fated my plight!
ode to the ever diminishing bumblebees,
be cause of man’s pollution gift to nature…
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Poetry on a canapé 
A beautiful ode, my friend! 🙂
Thank you, Marina for your acknowledgement…
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This is a gentle and glorious “welcome to summer” poem as well as a reminder that we depend upon bees for our survival. Sunshine and the hum of bees comes through the WIFI. Thank you!!!
Thank you, Rebecca for acknowledging the ultimate human purpose of my homage to friends and life, so to speak provider, to fellow beings.
Jean-Jacques
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So wonderful to read something upbeat and welcoming to my favorite season. Beautiful photo as well. Thank you. 🙂
Thank you, Paulette for letting me know that this beautiful and lovely creature allowed my imagination to to join you in welcoming yours and my favourite season. Ah summer near year round, an important reason for my having lived in California some five years. Now many, many moons ago… as in the early eighties when we were all too young, but meeting nice people like you dear friend !
Your voice is particularly resonant in the recording. I enjoyed it a great deal!!
I thank you for this nice compliment, which I humbly accept. Thanks to Rebecca Budd, I was reminded that a vocal element, which I had used many years ago, adds an age old natural perspective to poetry, especially in our ever increasing high-speed world. It truly offers something more emotional and especially for new readers of poetry, yet to be convinced of its human worth and communications value so importance thereof among the cold commercial language constantly bombarding us all……
Jean-Jacques
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Poetry is definitely meant to be read aloud. After listening to your last few offerings, I have caught myself looking for an audio link on other poets’ posts and feeling disappointed that there weren’t any.
Actually, I’m hardly surprised, for one has to really enjoy the idea of the adventure that recording a recital accomplishes in relation to the amount of work involved. Sometimes anywhere from 3 or 4 to 10 or 12 takes, before you get it right, depending on one’s level of perfectionism will satisfy their self-imposed demands. I happen to enjoy the satisfaction of it, as well as the help and encouragement I am fortunate enough to receive, makes it all worthwhile, at least for now…!
Thanks Liz, Jean-Jacques
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I’m more in the two or three dozen takes to record audio the way I want it!
This must be one of your isms… Actually, you eventually develop tricks and a knack to get it done right before you wear out the process beyond reach.