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The Dying of the Bees (a villanelle)

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At the end of the endless cry
a bee tree slumps humming
mourning in black and why

The stump does not sigh
though the bees aren't coming
at the end of the endless cry

It hums and buzzes
darkly softly thrumming 
mourning in black and why

In yellow and tears and why
the endless patient strumming 
at the end of the endless cry

Under the heavy sky
the depths of anguish plumbing 
mourning in black and why

And at the end of you and I
the slump of quiet numbing
at the end of the endless cry
mourning in black and why

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Originally published 4/20/15. This took weeks to write and I have never been satisfied with it. I challenged myself to write a difficult, structured poem. A villanelle is: 

"a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain."

 
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