Friday 27 November 2009

MARINA xiii

An insect moves among the trees
Unconscious of the pollen's power
Conveyed by her from flower to flower
As she pursues the yen of bees.

Seeing the bee a honey guide
Has turned a ratel from its tracks
To rob the honey and the wax
As their instinctive lusts provide.

The pistil, fertilised, transforms -
Seed, shoot and sapling pullulate;
Birds, beasts and insects congregate
In vibrant, interactive swarms.

Again God's detailed work is proved
Through skills we barely understand
Since He has webbed strand after strand
Of life, because an insect moved.

1 comment:

  1. dear david..this poem about the bees and the pollen is so great!
    the bees and their hard labour bring such good to the world, eh?
    every day my husband take his bee pollen and it has so many vitamens!
    yes the bees do good, making sweet honey.
    mom golden always tells us "you draw more flies with honey than with vinegar."

    you know david, your poem reminded me of this poem that i read years ago when i was a teen ager. it is a little long but quite interesting.

    The Calf Path
    by S.W. Foss

    One day, through the primeval wood,
    A calf walked home, as good calves should;

    But made a trail all bent askew,
    A crooked trail as all calves do.

    Since then three hundred years have fled,
    And, I infer, the calf is dead.

    But still he left behind his trail,
    And thereby hangs my moral tale.

    The trail was taken up next day,
    By a lone dog that passed that way.

    And then a wise bell-wether sheep,
    Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep;

    And drew the flock behind him too,
    As good bell-wethers always do.

    And from that day, o'er hill and glade.
    Through those old woods a path was made.

    And many men wound in and out,
    And dodged, and turned, and bent about;

    And uttered words of righteous wrath,
    Because 'twas such a crooked path.

    But still they followed - do not laugh -
    The first migrations of that calf.

    And through this winding wood-way stalked,
    Because he wobbled when he walked.

    This forest path became a lane,
    that bent, and turned, and turned again.

    This crooked lane became a road,
    Where many a poor horse with his load,

    Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
    And traveled some three miles in one.

    And thus a century and a half,
    They trod the footsteps of that calf.

    The years passed on in swiftness fleet,
    The road became a village street;

    And this, before men were aware,
    A city's crowded thoroughfare;

    And soon the central street was this,
    Of a renowned metropolis;

    And men two centuries and a half,
    Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

    Each day a hundred thousand rout,
    Followed the zigzag calf about;

    And o'er his crooked journey went,
    The traffic of a continent.

    A Hundred thousand men were led,
    By one calf near three centuries dead.

    They followed still his crooked way,
    And lost one hundred years a day;

    For thus such reverence is lent,
    To well established precedent.

    A moral lesson this might teach,
    Were I ordained and called to preach;

    For men are prone to go it blind,
    Along the calf-paths of the mind;

    And work away from sun to sun,
    To do what other men have done.

    They follow in the beaten track,
    And out and in, and forth and back,

    And still their devious course pursue,
    To keep the path that others do.

    They keep the path a sacred grove,
    Along which all their lives they move.

    But how the wise old wood gods laugh,
    Who saw the first primeval calf!

    Ah! many things this tale might teach -
    But I am not ordained to preach."

    you write some wonderful poems david just like donna does!........from terry

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