Dethroning the Queen
A queen from the colony of Apini
Decided to leave the hive for a spree,
But the drones deposed her
By the process of supercedure,
Now she's just a sad and lonely bee.
She was the mother to thousands
Who cared for her with nimble hands.
They fed her royal jelly,
And kept her with a full belly,
So she could make no other demands.
She has been sadly dethroned and bereft,
Dragged from her royal honeycomb, and left
A disgraced and dishonored bee
From the colony of Apini,
Sentenced to die by a " cuddle death."
Barbara A Cadogan © 2012
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Submitted on March 17, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 1 |
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