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The Yelowjacket War
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The Yelowjacket War |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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It was spring the virile weeds were, sprinklered and green the ground around, wet with holding, wet with release. I pulled my weight then, thinking to make pretty a dandelion I thanked, how I love tenacity! Yank! Under, nested cozy in comrade buzz the mighty force emerged and caught me by my surprise all packaged in a scream and dash for door. There, in my hair, all a curl and unkempt furl, locked into place their fierce war, my own barbed wire, fancy my horror, beating me again and again with my gardener whim. My face, my eyes, my head the target, they followed me in to the kitchen faucet, inward bound, my only thought to kill, to drown. The prize fighter beaten, me, swollen eyes just slits, can't see, and the weeding only just begun, now left to someone who has not been stung, and I still watch with leery eye for yellow jackets in nests, can fly. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
ow ow ow ow...how can you see to type? I've had my encounters with our little jackets... I learned to give them MORE than ample room.... wasps too.... |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Karilea...I can see because this didn't just happen, I've had time to unswell. Thanks for the sympathy! |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Well dear, all I can say, is quit making me think things have just happened! It's JUST the day for something just like this to occur...I mean, had you written it in winter, I would have said...aha...a memory.... but no, you had to go pick a very summery day for your pen to hold the jackets at bay!!! LOL...  |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Yeow! So that's why bees give you the willies...and for somebody who loves to do gardening..... I like this poem on all levels, except the one of literal reality -- anaphlactic shock is no joke. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
eowwwww, Marti, I had bees, how dreadful this experience, but kept me on pins and needles the entire way through.... |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
oooh, talk about taking the cure for weeding, OUCH! glad you're mended you poor dear thing This is definitely a poem I WILL NOT share with my daughter...her fear is big enough. Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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Goodknight Member Elite
since 2002-06-15
Posts 2386Ohio, USA |
a powerfully descriptive write Martie - you capture the experience of being attacked and stung by yellow jackets prefectly - I for one am not a bee, wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, or any other stinging insect lover at all - Paul |
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scorpio Member Ascendant
since 2002-10-02
Posts 5178right...there |
Yellow jackets have one rule..."Leave me alone!!" believe in what your heart feels... |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Martie - they sure can fly, got into one of those nests, and they chased me running for over a mile. You OK? BC |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Bill...yep, I'm fine. I just have to go to hospital if I ever get stung again, now I'm super sensitive and could go into shock. Makes a good story, but was no fun while it was happening. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Excellent write Martie..I could almost feel the sting in this one. I usually talk to them or blow on them if they come near.. It's when you don't see one and grab it when weeding that they get you. ~Hugs, Nancy~ ~If you haven't heard the sunset, |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
YeeeeOUCH! *S* I don't blame you for being leery after such an encounter! Those weeds had fierce protectors! *S* I'm glad you're okay... you wrote this so well we all felt the sting. *S* |
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