Bees

One hundred million years on Earth
There's no accounting for our worth
Without our quite amazing powers
there would be no trees or flowers

The Earth would be a barren place
No flowers to, your borders, grace
No cereals to make your bread
and keep your teeming millions fed

We've worked our magic without fuss
but now, it seems, you're killing us
Your all consuming need for more
has brought us to extinction's door

Your pesticides have done their worst
Our decline can't be reversed
Because of them we cannot breed
but you don't take the slightest heed

When we're gone most plants will die
and YOUR extinction will be nigh
Without us to pollinate
mankind will have sealed it's fate

It's too late now, the damage done
The end of 'Apis' has begun
All life on Earth brought to its knees
and all because you killed the bees
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014


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Date: 7/9/2017 3:17:00 AM
Dear Rob I have tried to reach you through the soupmail. Is there anyway we can connect with you and get a biography from you. My daughter really would love to use your poem for her project submission and we do need to write an entire section about the poet in it. Thanks a lot for writing such lovely relevant poems. Indira Indidee@gmail.com
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Date: 11/28/2014 1:13:00 PM
Your poem was "the bees knees"!
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Date: 11/28/2014 9:47:00 AM
I've heard about this devastating problem. And pray a reversal solution can be found. We need our bees! thanks for bringing attention to this problem. Blessings, Darlene
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Date: 11/28/2014 8:15:00 AM
So sad and unfortunately true Rob and the veroa mite doesn't help the situation:-( hugs jan xxx
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