🔘 Daily Notes .8 - Metamorphosis

Learning from a bumblebee

🔘 Daily Notes chronicles my unedited thoughts at the moment, from day to day. This series will end at 1.0, or 10 total posts 🍵

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Today I want to share a story and poem from a book I wrote what feels like a lifetime ago. I think it speaks to the beauty inherent in even difficult experiences. I wonder what it brings up for you?

Metamorphosis

Bombus— russet-back
grasping with black arms
climbs inside a red flower
which is dying in a plastic tray.

Midsummer, low water
Soil      dry
Sun      hot
Dead leaves, yellow stalk
But the red flower is blooming
Frayed edges    of its    curling petals
Last sugar from the rootbound base blooms
at the top—

Bee dives down, struggling deep
All covered in golden pollen

No matter is a flowers death 
to this bee
Only 
what's deep        within        matters.
Being given,  taken,       
transformed.