June 11, 2007
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Buzzword
I’ve been exceedingly nervous about the reports I have heard that cell phone usage is disrupting the natural patterns of bees. They are so important to the world’s ecosystem, helping plants to reproduce, and thereby keeping us all fed. Recently, science has offered another hypothesis that it may be an unknown disease that is killing off the honey-makers. The reason they give for this theory is that bees get their direction from the sun, not from auditory information, so it is unlikely cell phone waves are throwing them off kilter. Either way, I hope they find an answer and fix the problem soon. Here is a poem for the bees.
Bees
A royal priesthood, these sons of the Queen
say goodbye to her in search of sunlight,
following the maps of song and dancing.They skip like dust on the edge of morning
to steal a pollen kiss from petaled lips,
the sweep of mouth a brush of fairy wing.They are the makers of pyramids, of
menacing cone hives in a child’s nightmare,
harbingers of honey, pain, and flora.Does the exquisite music of radar
foil the impenetrable procession?
Do not bid farewell in delectation.
Comments (8)
Seems as though everything has a price. Judi
The loss of bees would, of course, lead to mass starvation and an unimaginable ecological disaster. So here’s hoping we have not already killed ourselves.
However: “to steal a pollen kiss from petaled lips” – just beautiful.
RYC Thank you Jan, here’s hoping for a miracle. Funny, last night when we got up to leave our friend’s house their little dog came over and put her paws up on my leg, looked me straight in the eye, waited for me to bend down, then licked me on my cheek…..I hadn’t been crying or even talking about Matilda being sick, but she KNEW. She was absolutely comforting me.
This bee phenomenon also occurred in 1869, 1923 and 1965.
Good poem
That’s a beauty of a poem…..your poems always have such a wealth of sensibility and warm in them.
Tomesara.x
Wonderful poem, and yes flamenco music is good.
inspiring… oh but now you make me long for lazy summer daze again
That is a great poem and the line about a pollen kiss from petaled lips is amazing. This is a serious problem and just imagine if it WERE cell phones that caused the problem. Would people give them up? It would be a BIG problem and it is even if it is some other cause. Bee’s are extremely important in the chain of plant life and in effect our lives. Who would have guessed?
Lovely poem Jan.