Comments on: i should really google

By: Rolston

Rolston — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:08:53 +0000

so i looked it up, stare is another word for starling. a bird. I needed that to get into the poem. thanks.

molly, thanks. how many hives does mike have? do you think he will agree with nate?

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:54:29 +0000

Chinese fire drill. Bees get bored too.

By: molly

molly — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:51:41 +0000

my brother, mike, is the bee rustler to ask. when he’s back in the country, we’ll get him on that one!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:39:31 +0000

The superior order of the honey bees is taking over:

The Stare’s Nest by My Window

The bees build in the crevices
Of loosening masonry, and there
The mother birds bring grubs and flies.
My wall is loosening; honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.

We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty; somewhere
A man is killed, or a house burned.
Yet no clear fact to be discerned:
Come build in the empty house of the stare.

A barricade of stone or of wood;
Some fourteen days of civil war:
Last night they trundled down the road
That dead young soldier in his blood:
Come build in the empty house of the stare.

We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.

– W. B. Yeats