This Poem was Submitted By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2015-05-17 12:04:00 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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A Bumblebee at the Garden

My wife and daughter built a garden. They said to me, knowing my proclivity, "be careful. There is a fine netting around it,     nearly invisible, do not walk into it." I almost did. A fat bumblebee wanted something inside. He could see through     the netting, but couldn’t get in. Was he perturbed? I wanted no part of it. I am a carnivore. Yet but for him I would indeed have walked into it, the netting,     and been enmeshed, and ruined the husbandry. Meat-eater, I was perturbed for both of us. Metaphor, metaphor, invisible, visible fence guarding reality, as if it were the Holy of Holies. Peace, bumblebee, peace. This summer we will eat, not knowing the hand that blesses,     neither me, nor thee.

Copyright © May 2015 Mark Steven Scheffer


This Poem was Critiqued By: Joe Gustin On Date: 2015-06-06 20:51:02
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
So beyond wow. You are lighting a newer path for poets like i to follow.. Bravo


This Poem was Critiqued By: Medard Louis Lefevre Jr. On Date: 2015-05-28 00:57:45
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Very nice. Especially relevant to us (not you intended) metaphors. I am both inside and outside the wildlife mesh. Preserving the honey, the strawberries, and lettuce, even maybe some subterranean carrots from cute whining bears, Bambi's ne'er-do-well friends, and rascally wabbits. You are absolutely correct we don't know the hand that feeds and would probably bite it anyway just for the flavor of the meat. Thanks, again! Another fantastic read. Medard
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