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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459808" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Telling the bees</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was the year before last that<br>I started to notice it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bees wandered into the house<br>then didn’t remember the way back</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bees. Whose sense of direction used to be<br>great than any Indian scout; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if mankind had lost its most valuable gift<br>-what might that be? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scientists are still working on the reasons.<br>There were more lost bees last year; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when they’re half exhausted and quieten down, <br>staying on the window pane for a few second more, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I take a jam jar and a piece of paper<br>and take them to the door</div><div style="margin:10px 0">talking to them as I did when<br>I buried that baby swallow when I was four; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">indecipherable words that I would use<br>to a cat run over in the road, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a child in pain; some sort of sounds<br>of consolation for what’s beyond words anyway</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that only music could express.<br>It’s ancient: you should talk to bees; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">tell them of all that affects the house, the family; <br>when there’s a death, you put a piece of black cloth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the hive. In return, they do things for you<br>that are beyond your notice or their explanation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can I tell them, we’re so sorry for you, we don’t know, <br>when we do we’ll tell you; it’s probably our fault, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">chemicals and stuff. So far this year, only one<br>huge bumble-bee, I couldn’t catch it; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it hid from me. Perhaps they’ve learned<br>whatever it is they had forgotten; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">perhaps they risked their lives<br>to warn us: you too have forgotten</div><div style="margin:10px 0">something that could kill your species: <br>you too, have forgotten the way back…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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Bees wandered into the house
then didn’t remember the way back

Bees. Whose sense of direction used to be
great than any Indian scout; 

as if mankind had lost its most valuable gift
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