{"id":1408,"date":"2006-07-07T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:43:04","slug":"bee-balm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"Bee balm"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a> A bumblebee a bum will be, <\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
a bumbling, grumbling bum he’ll be, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
who stumbles, tumbles clumsily, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
a-mumbling his ho-hum hum, hee-hee! <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
He fumbles, thumbles, bumptiously, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
a-mumbling his ho-hum hum, ho-hum!
<\/span><\/em>
<\/em>With jumbled eyes and winglets wee,
cumbrous thighs and nimble knees, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
he lumbers by the tumbleweeds, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
a-rumbling his hum-drum hum, ho-ho! <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
He rambles by the bramble-weeds, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
a-rumbling his hum-drum hum, ho-hum!
<\/span><\/em>
His bulby bum with ringlets three <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
and stinglet numb may humble thee: <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
No dumbbell he, this bungly bee, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
a-humming his hum-de-dum hum, ha-ha! <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Some bundle he, this blundery bee, <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
a-humming his hum-de-dum hum, ho-hum!
<\/em>\u2014Andreas Wittenstein
<\/span>copyright 1985 by Andreas Wittenstein
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In searching for a poem to accompany this pic I came across <\/span>this charming site<\/span><\/a> that I’d like to pass along. There are twenty or so animal poems, songs, and a bit of natural history for background. Fun stuff! The author’s introduction<\/a> to the poetry is interesting, as well. More info and a nice list of plants for pollinators is available at the Bumblebee Pages<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bumblebee a bum will be, a bumbling, grumbling bum he’ll be, who stumbles, tumbles clumsily, a-mumbling his ho-hum hum, hee-hee! He fumbles, thumbles, bumptiously, a-mumbling his ho-hum hum, ho-hum!With jumbled eyes and winglets wee,cumbrous thighs and nimble knees, he lumbers by the tumbleweeds, a-rumbling his hum-drum hum, ho-ho! He rambles by the bramble-weeds, a-rumbling … Continue reading Bee balm<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}