Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BEE-ING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Su Shafer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have become a stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A gemstone. Labradorite<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or Moonstone maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No – an Orca Agate<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the Earth, with an affinity with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am a stationary object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My unruly legs have taught me<\/p>\n\n\n\n The power of stillness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n How motionlessness invites presence<\/p>\n\n\n\n In each moment.<\/p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today I watched a bee visit<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the flowers in my patio planter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her tender attention to each one<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pollen pantaloons on her legs<\/p>\n\n\n\n The song of her wings, <\/p>\n\n\n\n Humming as she went from floret to floret<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trailing in the air behind her as she flew off.<\/p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her busy work reminds me<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are no small lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think of her and her sisters<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bustling about in the hive,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Content in their purposefulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike my quiet house<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no stillness in a hive<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even when they pause for a brief repast<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of bee bread and honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Su Shafer<\/strong> is a creative crafter, fabricating bits of writing in poetry and short stories, and other bits into characters that appear in paintings or sit on various bookshelves and coffee tables. She lives in a cottage on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, where the tea kettle is always whistling and the biscuits freshly baked. One never knows who might stop by to share a rainy afternoon. And all are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page. BEE-ING By Su Shafer I have become a stone. A gemstone. Labradorite Or Moonstone maybe. No – an Orca Agate From the Earth, with an affinity with water. I am a stationary object. My unruly legs have taught me The power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1474],"tags":[1165,1543],"class_list":["post-13276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sparks","tag-just-write-writing-freely-the-write-spot-blog","tag-su-shafer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3s8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13281,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions\/13281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}