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The Flies and the Honey Pot
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The Flies and the Honey Pot

Team Pitara ● Ages 13-14 ● 66 words

A jar of honey chanced to spill
Its contents on the windowsill
In many a viscous pool and rill

The flies, attracted by the sweet,
Began so greedily to eat,
They smeared their fragile wings and feet.

With many a twitch and pull in vain
They gasped to get away again,
And died in aromatic pain.

The Flies and the Honey Pot [Illustration by Sudheer Nath]
The Flies and the Honey Pot [Illustration by Sudheer Nath]

Word treasure

viscous
— thick and sticky like honey
aromatic
— having a strong sweet smell
fragile
— breakable or easily broken
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66 words
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