In the hive at the bottom
Of the garden live 26 bees
I have named each one
After a letter of the alphabet
A swarm is unreadable
But when they land on flowers to refuel
Or settle on the lawn to sunbathe
They spell out words like these:
sprodxk, ytplinew, hucadtr,
zdikql, wlhurbd, xseznm
It’s a difficult language
The language of bees.
Roger McGough