THANK YOU LEE FOR WRITING A SEQUEL TO MY POEM, which was so inspiring that I felt like adding a 3rd part. This is fun! :D Poetry is so enjoyable to compose; I just wish I were more eloquent in it but that's probably not gonna stop me from trying anyway. |D;; I like expressing myself sometimes in this unconventional and ambiguous way.
[Edit: Added in the 4th and what I'm presuming to be the final part. Thanks Lee!! *A*]
A bird in a cage
With no will to fly,
Who aspires not,
Whose wings denied,
Feels neither longing,
Nor vexed, nor content;
Yet to be in this cage
This bird is meant.
A bird in a cage
Loses the will to fly.
White wings, full-fledged;
But the heart will deny.
Nowhere to run,
Wishing not to roam.
In this cage
This bird is home.*
A bird in a cage
Knows not how to fly--
Its wings inexperienced,
Its plight to deny
That skies can be soared;
Destination unfound.
Fearful is this bird,
And to this cage it’s bound.
A bird in a cage
Learns not how to fly
But to dream and to wish
Of worlds undefined.
For it has grown weary,
And used to the pain.
This cage is its life,
A perennial stain.*
*These stanzas are written by Lee Chao.
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Hi I tried again. More impulse writing.
ReplyDeleteA bird in a cage
Learns not how to fly
But to dream and to wish
of worlds undefined.
For it has grown weary,
and used to the pain.
This cage is its life,
a perennial stain.