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Tennessee Angel
Senior Member

since 2000-06-03

Posts 661
Tennessee

0 posted 2000-06-09 10:24 PM

The wild bird wishes that it had a home.
It gets to tired of being all alone.
The caged bird wishes that it could fly,
but the golden bars won't let him try.

The two birds decide to make a deal.
"You be me and see how it feels."
So the golden cage is opened wide
and the sheltered bird steps outside.

"Free at last" he cries out loud
and flies away to a beautiful cloud.
The other bird now had a home
and no longer was forced to roam.

So each of them lived for about a year.
Never a worry, never a fear.
They thought they were happy forevermore,
but they started to miss what they had before.

The bird, now free, began to see
that he wasn't as happy as he used to be.
Nobody fed him every day
and he had no safe place to stay.

The bird, now caged, was always blue
for he sat around with nothing to do.
He longed for the days when he could fly
as high as he wanted into the sky.

Now the wild bird wishes it had a home.
He gets so tired of being all alone.
The caged bird wishes that he could fly
but the golden bars won't let him try.

"That man has shown himself great who has never grieved in evil days and never bewailed his destiny." --Seneca

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

1 posted 2000-06-09 10:26 PM

Wonderful metaphor here...this says a lot.

Nice read! Thanks.

netswan
Senior Member

since 2000-03-28

Posts 1369
Washington

2 posted 2000-06-10 12:52 PM

Tennessee, this is soooooo good, ah the
grass is so much greener on the other side.
Loved this

~netswan

lotharingia
Senior Member

since 2000-06-04

Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany

3 posted 2000-06-10 07:25 AM

indeed. e are never satisfid with what we have.

Uta Lotharingia
"Wir wollen nicht Wert und Sinn ... wir wollen Unwert und Unsinn"
Raoul Hausmann

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2000-06-10 07:40 AM

TennesseeAngel~
Ah ... such a wonderful way to present
the idea of grazing in other pastures.

Nicely done.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Butterflies_dont_cry
Member Elite

since 2000-03-06

Posts 3733
Michigan

5 posted 2000-06-10 07:46 AM

T.A.* "The grass is always greener" syndrome or the "Don't know what you've got till it's gone" disease....What ever you call it...you have written it with style and grace. I loved the tale and the idea you used. Thank you for sharing this!

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