Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 07, 2022

I don’t know how to say this, but this is not lame.

I do not do well having to deal with Emily Dickinson first thing in the morning – especially before I’ve had my coffee!

Playing a bee in the school play was such a horrible experience for Emily! Not only did her classmates make fun of her, they laughed at her antenna, they poked her with sticks and they flung rubber bands with stones at her. But, unbeknownst to anyone, she buzzed like a bee on stage, then sang like a canary, snitching on all the kids who had done her wrong!

☺️

Never stop a bee

If she is going anywhere

For you may be concluding

Some terrific love affair, be careful

Ah yes, fame flits and flies; it visits you but rarely, and always for the wrong thing.

No. 591:

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died -The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air -Between the Heaves of Storm -

The Eyes around – had wrung them dry -And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset – when the KingBe witnessed – in the Room -

I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away What portion of me be Assignable – and then it wasThere interposed a Fly -

With Blue – uncertain – stumbling Buzz -Between the light – and me -And then the Windows failed – and then I could not see to see -

Emily wrote one that mentions frogs too:

https://poets.org/poem/im-nobody-who-are-you-260

( croak )

My mom had that haircut when she was a girl in the 1920s.

But with only one wing, you will fly in circles chasing your 15 minutes. Lame.

Obscurity has none of that, and at only a fraction of the cost!

Mohammad Ali the dog and the butterfly heart be good.

The trilogy of comics through the years.

Cute little girl, with her “page boy” haircut.

You tell me that you’ve got fame within your pond

And your bee can sting

But it’s just green reeds

It’s just green reeds

The Froggles: And Your Bee Can Sting

Faith, where is thy sting?

Faith, I told you not to wear your new costume out in public until I had finished working on it!

Sing along to this song, little mischief-maker! Spank spank spank!

Buzzzz buzzzz