Fire Takes Flight

or how the mighty fall

A firey pain my elbow feels
Searing hot fire spreads
Across my elbow and my arm
Towards my head its led

Tiny insect stinging me
Has me in his grasp
Clutching angrily skin held fast
Stinger so small pain so vast

Brush him trying to dislodge him
He hangs on tighter still
Finally dislodged his stinging done
To the house I run

Enter through opened door
Treat the burning spot
Feel a tickle on my chest
YEEKS another one

Out of clothing I come
Chase the yellow one
Finally get him out the door
Treat the spot once more

Tiny yellow jacket
Sting hot and sore
Feels like a burn
From touching hot oven door

Never ever pound a post
Into ground so hot
Unless your are ready
To run from the spot

Be prepared to leave post haste
Fighting fire in flight
Striping clothes along the way
Giving neighbors fright

Author's Note

I seem to be having one encounter after another with "bees" this year. I don't recommend driving a t-post in the edge of a yellow jacket's nest lol.

Reviews

[A.Lee]

Yellow jackets are feisty little things! So are wasps. I remember being stung by a wasp once who proceeded to follow me all the way back inside as I was running from him. lol. I like the rhyme in this.

[Art]

Ouch!

Now I bet that hurt..

nice work on this poem...

[Coyote Poetry]

Those yellow jacket have no fear and best be left alone unless you have sometime that will kill them. I like the story. I was attack often in my time in Georgia. They own the woods. A very good poem.
Coyote

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

A great mix of a horror movie and comedy... recently while working I had an encounter with mosquitos... they were so many on my legs it looked like pant legs... most certainly a lesson learned.

[Wicahpi]

I don't recommend riding a horse over one either, or a pack of horses!!
What a disaster. I've done the run stripping thing when I sat in an ant bed!!
OMG

[Alice_In_WhateverLand]

I have never been bitten by a bee or a wasp! This poem makes me glad i haven't either! great poem :) x

[Anthony M Smith Jr]

I agree. I wish we had bee's here but have not seen any this Spring or now its Summer time. This morning when me and my son were canoeing down the Mississippi River I saw a bird I have never seen before. A bird of prey and it was fishing. Bigger than a eagle that had some kind of crest on its head, black in color with no other visual marks. There were some geese on the bank and I watched this bird swoop down and landed on its target killing the prey instantly and flew with his/her catch and flew back to a perch on a ledge over-looking the river. We are going back tomorrow to film it.
Life and light,
TT-TTO-NI-K
Elk