The Bee Fields Of Yesteryear
Casting my mind back many a year
To childhood days spent catching bees
Those long gone memories do bring a tear
Playing with friends in the summer breeze
A simple jam jar, air holes pierced in the lid
Laden with clover and blades of green grass
To catch a bumblebee, shear delight for a kid
Observing him carefully through the transparent glass
Like little scientists we named differing species
Terminology I can still recall to this day
What a pleasure it is to remember these
Adventure along the hills was our kind of play
It saddens me today to see young minds so numbed
Lush fields of green devoured and disappeared
To technology, children have now succumbed
Our beautiful world has been commandeered
Whilst walking upon a small meadow of green
I spotted a young boy with a glass jar in his hand
My eyes were aghast at what I’d just seen
It seems there’s still hope upon the land
I watched from afar as he examined his catch closely
Suddenly releasing him and away he did fly
With a loving smile, the boy waved him off joyfully
As I meandered off into the distance, wiping a tear from my eye
About this poem
This poem is about a man who is walking in a beautiful meadow as he reminisces of times gone by when he used to play in fields spending his childhood catching bees.
Written on September 19, 2023
Submitted by Lee_Geoghegan on September 19, 2023
Modified by Lee_Geoghegan on March 24, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA BCBC ADAD EFEF GHGH IJIJ |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,104 |
Words | 206 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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