How Come Bees Can Fly?

A nervous bee panics
at aerodynamics,
so slight and so slender his wing,
while the bee's heavy torso
suggests, all the more so,
that flight's an impossible thing.

Yet the bee will survive
when he flies from the hive,
this worker without any money,
for practice defies
what theory implies
and the Queen Bee will still make her honey.

poem © Celia Warren 2011

First published in How to Turn Your Teacher Purple - James Carter, A&C Black, 2011

Not sure what this flowering wall-climber is, but every year it's covered in bees. Wonderful!