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Many a Sorrowing Bee Keeper

from Choral Soliloquies (I) by Stephen Mead

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Influenced by Margaret Atwood's "Oryx & Crake", a dystopian future world where honey is used on the wounds of humans who have brought about the plight of the bee

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Many a Sorrowing Bee Keeper

“Please to see the queen,”
she might have sung to these workers
in a different time, but now, smoking this hive,
see how even the drones have changed.

That one still brings the buzz of another,
but overall they are less trusting
with their numbers becoming scarce.
Yellow & black, some beleaguered plight
has come to their fuzz, their clear gold dust wings
landing to striate the Keeper
who’s become precarious too.

“What balance is out of hand?”
she asks in a whisper as if down on one knee.

Is her covering veil that of mourning,
a netted babushka & the same fabric on her fingers
still deft but forlorn?

“Aren’t you messengers for the dead?”

God, goddess, look how she questions,
puzzled plaintive in plain sight,
knowing despair is a hungering
& what of the honey?

It is rue to each poultice for all wounds never mentioned
but apparent to these beings her gestures reflect.

How their little legs give, stitching without sting,
& she remains seamstress,
pouring webbed nectar to every sore.

Under indifferent Nature’s heat, she senses many others
bursting as blossoms on her kind,
the sun not granting pardon for what has been done
to all creatures living.

Still, forgive me she sings,
profusely apologizing like a nurse to the hurt
as she goes on smoking this hive,
a stalk of many mouths, her palms
the Futures’ mandibles now,

taking, taking more.

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from Choral Soliloquies (I), released May 20, 2017
from FreeSound.org, contributors I.D. from site 101981__cormi__troubadour-01b, 152390__adam-n__paulamicusmeussection

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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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