I know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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junemac
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0 posted 2005-10-19 06:34 AM

Silver notes in gilded cage.
A body small and tired.
Wings clipped to view;
given enough to eat,
in the name of love.
A looking glass to preen in,
reflection of bars and sorrow.
Naked before a blind audience,
in a playground for one.
Tiny heart throbs silently,
under a ruffling of feathers.
Protected, warm, sheltered,
from freedom,
from life.
from death.
I know why the caged bird sings,
as tears pool beneath her.
Securely bound to her pedastal.
Liberty buried within,
the blindness of his love.
Her notes a whisper of silver,
are all that can be free.
Defiance soaring unfettered
and beyond a gilded cage.

Joyce Johnson

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since 2001-03-10

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1 posted 2005-10-19 10:47 AM

A prisoner of love is still a prisoner. Good work, June. Love, Joyce

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2005-10-21 10:32 AM

June~
A lovely penning~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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let me know when it is LOVE that I find*~ <))><

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Trillium

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since 2001-03-09

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Idaho, USA

3 posted 2005-10-21 05:23 PM

Dear Junemac:

We have never kept birds, just because I can't stand to see them caged. It's too pitiful! Your poem is so sensitive!

Love
Betty Lou

Betty Lou Hebert

junemac
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since 2003-04-24

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uk

4 posted 2005-10-22 02:32 AM

thanks Joyce. I enjoyed the writing of this one.
Hugs from June xxx

junemac
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since 2003-04-24

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5 posted 2005-10-22 07:36 AM

Thank you Marge and Betty Lou, I am thrilled with your comments. Betty Lou I know, It is a great sadness to see them caged.
Hugs from June xxx

Tramp Poet
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Could Be Anywhere...

6 posted 2005-11-06 05:16 PM

silver words of a silver melody
shining in the darkness of guilded captivity?
well done, June
tramp

Marge Tindal

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7 posted 2006-01-17 09:05 AM

-ing for a new member~

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Jim Nasium
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since 2006-01-16

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8 posted 2006-01-17 09:39 AM

junemac
I really enjoyed this one'a yours. Very nice work! I am becomeing a fan'a yours.
Jim Nasium

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whitedove
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9 posted 2006-01-23 08:33 PM

loved it!!!

Ringo

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10 posted 2006-01-23 10:58 PM

I very rarely, as most on here can attest, reply to poetry, though I read a great deal of it. I initially came in because the title is the same as the Maya Angelou poem, and it was so powerfully written that I actually went to check and see if it was the same... my apologies for doubting you.
This is a masterful poem, and is definately one of the best I have seen on this site.

Here is the other one in case anyone wants to compare the two.

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