the barefoot bard Poet Rhyme

To Market to Market

To market to market to buy a fat hog, Oops a mistake has been made
it's to purchase an oven fired loaf of freshly cooked  bread
How was it cooked and how was it sold
give me some quick I want to be fed

At two in the morning
the cook did arise
Rubbing the sleep 
from both of his eyes

Put wood in the oven and set it alight
in roughly three hours, sour dough bread will be cooked
Soon to be eaten 
with joyous delight

The warmth of fresh loaves
aroma arising
Shoppers are eager 
need no enticing

Twenty four loaves 
in total produced
No ads required , a total sell out all of the sales
have been self induced

To market to market again
this time to buy a bee hotel
Oops we're tee- totallers
so we give them the name of bee motel

Australia is host for 
the most species of native bees
One thousand nine hundred
more than any country far overseas

These motels provide a haunt
for adults where it's eggs that they lay
Seal the holes with resin , leaves or mud
then they are off, get clean away

Some months do elapse
for the larva to hatch out
You'll see them in daylight, when transformed as an adult
Pollinating flowers 
as they're flying about

Procreation continues
the holes filled once more
It's so amazing all the wonders
planet earth keeps in store

Footnote Tee-totaller A person who abstains from alcohol

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