Once Upon A Plum Tree...

• Katrina Wall, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2010

Once upon a plum tree, there lived a little bee...
He couldn’t go to sleep, cause of all the noisy sheep.

“Be quiet!” he screamed, but the sheep just beamed.
They chitter-chattered on, so the bee yelled “be gone!”

He thought he’d use a trick, it would make the sheep stick.
At the sheep he threw honey, it was totally funny!

But now the little bee was sad, for the sheep did not make him mad.
The lambs wept and cried, by their sweet, mothers’ side.

The bee calmed them down, by dressing like a clown.
They soon began to smile and laugh, when he acted like a newborn calf.

The bee is now their friend, so I’m sad to say that this is the end...