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Upon a tree I chanced to see a travel weary bumblebee frustrated in his search for nectared flower Upon a flower he did light and died upon that second night though I would sooner stay that fateful hour A lesson learned by such as I who from afar must feel you die and dying too myself in tiny leaps But you are gone and I am here my soul is numb, my mind unclear my vision so contracts to He who sleeps
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 10:59 PM UTC
Upon a Tree I Chanced to See
Upon a tree I chanced to see a travel weary bumblebee frustrated in his search for nectared flower Upon a flower he did light and died upon that second night though I would sooner stay that fateful hour A lesson learned by such as I who from afar must feel you die and dying too myself in tiny leaps But you are gone and I am here my soul is numb, my mind unclear my vision so contracts to He who sleeps
A poem I had forgotten about, written for a close friend a few months after learning of his death, during a period of abject grief. Written 28 December 2002.
cori-macnaughton
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 10:59 PM UTC
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