Honey feeling blue

The French beekeepers and the mystery of the blue honey

The Independent, 5 October 2012

When bees feel blue

their honey is apt to spread

no, ooze

into the sadder end

of the spectrum

between winter-blue cyan

and indigo nights alone.

No bee would choose

the adulteration of honey

to articulate its gloom

but you ignored

the hive’s wiggle dance,

their insistent buzzing

pushed back in your mind.

(c) 2012 Slush Poet