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What will you do now with the gift of your left life?Carol Ann Duffy
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Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.Laline Paull
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The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.Laline Paull
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The green began to seethe.Laline Paull
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717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!Laline Paull
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For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia;where bees pray on their knees, sing, praisein pear trees, plum trees; beesare the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them.Carol Ann Duffy
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Flora took pleasure in the delicacy of her approach and studied the ways of the smallest, sweetest blooms she could find, tiny pimpernels and forget-me-nots hiding in the pockets of the fields. The energy of the sun on her body and the joy of foraging filled her soul. She flew the fields and gathered until the light began to fade and she heard the sound of her forager sisters' wings turning for home. Then she joined them. .Laline Paull