Artists and arts at Pollinator Showcase Garden

Beauty of Bees Exhibit at the Pollinator Garden beside the Streetsville BIA! From Mississauga Arts Council (MAC)

1st: Frances Chang: Bee Garden

Runner-Up: Nicole Gabriela Bonilla Mendoza, Queen Bee

People’s Choice: Khurrum Javaid, MAC

2nd: Cesar A. Bonilla Guerrero, MAC

Chef’s Flight, Chris Erskine

At Pollinator Showcase Garden
Anna Yin @2024/07/19

Beside a Spanish white house,
I enter the “Pollinator Showcase Garden”.
It is a cool summer day, I stroll among
Lovely red, yellow and purple blossoms.

In my hand, I hold three precious marbles.
Each for one of my favorite artworks
made by bees, brown, golden and blue ones,
artists, young, mid-aged and senior…
My eyes dwell into each diligent and elegant work,
My heart is filled with nectar of color and light.
My ears hear all music of this harmony symphony.
My soul dances with each pollinator’s dance.

Oh, three is not enough, not nearly enough…
I pause at “Mississauga’s 50th Bee Garden”
I gaze at the purple “Secret Garden”
I listen to the “Echoes of Nectar”
I cry with the black “Queen Bee”
I count the beads in “Cosmic Nectar”
I smile at the “Guardian of the Bees”
I chase after the “Chef’s Flight”
I touch the huge bee’s glasses…

Carefully I place three of my favorite ones,
then another three and three and three…
it goes on and on in my appreciating mind…

Every nectar a honey drop
every hive a harmony home
Music continues through this summer
Bread and honey harvested by bees and artists.