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Two Poems for World Bee Day

We are bees, and our body is a honeycomb.We made the body, cell by cell we made it. – Rumi (1207-1273) Today is World Bee Day.  On this day in 1734, Anton Janša was born in Carniola (now part of … Continue reading

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A Poem for World Bee Day

Jo Shapcott (1953 – ) is an English poet, editor and lecturer. She won the National Poetry Competition in 1985 and 1991. Her collections include: Electroplating the Baby (1988), which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Collection,  Phrase Book (1992), … Continue reading

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