The
Albert
Einstein, Said;
“If The Bee Disappeared
Off The Surface Of The Globe ,
Man Would Have Only Four Years
To Live. Can We Believe Such Apocalyptic
Scenarios? Or Do We Blindly Accept The Rebuttals ?
Conglomerate Bankers, Such as Rabobank, Who No Longer
Lend Much Needed Funds To Farmers, Greatly Attributing
To What Is Being Dubbed” Mid- East Astronom-Famine”
Say Einstein’s Claim Is Preposterous, As Do The
Government Sanctioned Agro-Genetic Chem
Company “Monsanto”. But, Just Ask A
Honey Bee. If You Can Find One.
A Honey Of A Bee Is The Bee
Keeper. But, They Too Are
Becoming Extinct, As
It Ain’t Easy Being
Beezy In A Four
Marble World,
Buzzzzing
Away
To
1
\STING/
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Photo By Celi @ KitchensGarden
Nicely shaped :)
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Oh – and congratulations Paul. The award is beautiful — shame it doesn’t have ‘smelly-vision’ also so you could enjoy the fragrance. x
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This is a glorious post. I’ve just in the last few weeks been doing a series of drawings on bees which is a coincidence so have been reading a lot about the subject. I’m sorry to have missed this earlier. Take care and blessings sent. Pam
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Love this, Paul. Our bees are our future and your poem says it with a fair amount of rhetorical power!
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I did some posts on bees some time ago. What appears to be the problem is that bees like variety. So they move the hives into another area with different plant species and they are pollinated successfully. I must say, though, here in SA there do seem to be far fewer bees than previously. Nice one, Paul.
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Yes, sadly, many of the keepers whom have moved their bees to other places to pollinate for years now, are returning home with a lot fewer bees…and, in most cases from what I’ve heard and read thus far… They could not find any trace of the bees on the property where they had been feeding, dead or otherwise. Bless You
paul
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Love the poem and the picture. I hope he wasn’t right or we are all doomed!
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Your creative juice were really flowing with this one,. my friend!
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Thanks Buddy, now, could you help me smuggle my microwave into the hotel room? There’s a tip in it for ya..Heh. Well, actually, you’ve been selected to receive the “Reader Appreciation Award”. So, hey, lets just consider that your gratuity .. Bet you hear that a lot…But, somethings we can’t use to pay the bills can at times motivate us on for a few more hours…
Bless You
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Hi Paul, Thanks for the visit and comment! :)
No surgery yet Thank God, just a watching brief after being diagnosed with atypical arrythmia and some chest pains which may be Angina – I’ll know more if I have any more problems, but so far so good.
All they’ve done is told me how to recognise a heart attack and arranged more blood tests.
Apparently the best I can do is diet and get my weight and blood pressure down to safer levels.
Not easy, but it’s working! :)
God Bless my friend! :)
Prenin.
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Buzzkill is right! God help us all~
Great prose and the layout rocked!
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Thanks Susie, hope you come pick up your “Reader Appreciation” Award soon…In fact every commenter thus far on this page is receiving one…shy of Celi,(kitchensgarden) who already received the award from another blogger, and Harry, ( Driblingpensioner) who gave it to me…Bless You
paul
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Great poem Paul.
I love bees.
But not TOO close.
Such industrious little creatures.
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Great poem – and the perfect picture to go with it.
I think all of God’s creatures have a place in the food change, and the absence of any one creates a ripple that affects everyone. Honey bees do make me a bit squeamish, but the Africanized bees are the ones my nightmares are made of. Their aggressiveness scares me!
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Wonderful poem, Paul. And great picture by Cecilia, but I’m a bit petrified of bees, so I can’t start at it too long, ha!
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Thank You…Oh, Honey Bees are harmless pretty much, though, should they somehow begin to adapt and become resistant to the chemicals, and animal genes our agricultural foods are being grown with these days…Who knows what this way something may come.
Bless You
paul
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Man cannot live and eat except for the bee, they are needed as they are the Pollinators of the crops and food we eat.
The honey collected from the honey bee is used as food, but its also used in medicines etc.
84% of crops are animal-pollinated and 4000 vegetable species are pollinated by bees.
Any plant can be pollinated be any flying or any crawling or walking animal, but the bee is the best at it.
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Very true Paul.
Here in the UK we are losing bees because of a mite that feeds off them Varroa I think it’s called.
We either look after our bees or look forward to starvation…
God Bless!
Prenin.
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Yes, they actually contribute to 1/3 of all our necessitated pollination…Thanks Pren…you’re a true friend…
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Yes! Agreed! Great poem.
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Thanks Julie…come and get your award if you haven’t previously received the “Reader Appreciation Award” I chose your site as one of my recipients. Bless You
paul
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great poem.. excellent and the bees sucking sugar water from the marbles is kind of in keeping, with so few flowers grown anymore and you are right about the bee keepers, they used to be all over now very few people keep bees anymore..plus that nasty M word.. Plant blueberries, bees love the flowers and kids love the fruits! Win Win! c
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Blueberry’s actually have been a long time industry around here. I don’t think they’ve a much luck with them the past few years though. Thanks for the photo usage. And, you mentioned you’d probably want to tag those for clarity…But, I love the light on the left of the picture fading to dark, which is why I chose this particular one. Thanks again.
Bless You
paul
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