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Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "bee".
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When a poet asks you to consider the bee
Or the tree stump
Or the lawn gnome
Or the glass pane of your neighbor's window
Does anyone actually stop and consider?
Does the poet really expect such consideration?
Because I would like you to consider the bee
Really consider
I'm not a scientist
I wish I recycled more
What I don't know could fill a thousand libraries
But I'm sounding an alarm
Bees are dying
The finger points back at us
Everyone
Bee and human suffer
Consider:
Bees pollinate 80 percent of our flowering crops which constitute a third of everything we eat. Losing them will affect not only dietary staples such as apples, broccoli, strawberries, nuts, asparagus, blueberries and cucumbers, but may threaten beef and dairy industries if alfalfa is not available for feed.
So consider:
The world would be a better place without us.
I'm not suggesting murder or genocide
I'm all about peace, thank you
Humans would not be so sorely missed
What with our taking and taking
We will be sad to see the bees go
We shall regret our carelessness
Consider this:
(Although I don't really expect you to
It's not like people take advice from poets)
Catherine Powers
October 2013
Copyright 2013
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snake
spider
bee
There is a long list
of things
I don't understand
but I know that the web is fragile
so I walk around them
instead of stepping on them
I don't tug
at loose threads on sweaters either
- Mike Fedel
October, 2013