Captive.
Captive's clipped feathers
lie in wild distress
around bird internment.
Indifferent steel-bands
provide abandon
for a Nightingale catch.
Intense sight seeks far
beyond prison bars
and flies to furthest star.
Compulsion to sing
evokes an inbuilt
rejoicing found on wing.
Incessant his thrash
but wire walls fast
tire each deadly crash.
Trilling for freedom
cagebird's pleading
asks me to find a key.
Fly ~ ~ my beautiful
oh quickly use
open door to a future
that now is secured.
~ ~ ~
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Author:
Fay Slimm. (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Just a short story of kindness at work. Saw the picture and imagined a situation where a gentle maiden saw the distress of a sweet nightingale which led to her releasing the captured songbird .
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Comments6
A fine write Fay.
Sad but so engaging.
How cruel and unthinking we are to cage the wild animals.
The epitome of which must be the magnificent ferocious tiger which once caged deteriorates into a pathetic facsimile of depression and behavioural nonesense.
Some people encage a loved one and live a life of moaning 'what's changed, why can't you be like you used to be?'
Sad tale retold here with the finesse of Fay.
Good Morning Fay ! We have anjoyed a nice SPRING day 17C (63F) a bit Spring Showery today but plenty of Wind for sailing in Auckland Bay ~ This adds a frisson to being (physically) with My Beloved ANGELA again ~ AMEN. Its 11pm (Monday Evening) and we have just watched the *Queens Speach* ! Angela wishes BREXIT was all *Done & Dusted* so do I ! We both welcome the promise of more money for Education & the NHS !
Pictures do produce fascinating POEMS and this is no exception ! ANY CAGED BIRD ~ anywhere always fill Angela & I with horror ! The *caged* KIWIS we have seen in NZ are provided with enough SPACE rather like the 4OO Elephants we saw in the Addo Elephant park in Port Elizabeth South Africa. We also see domesticated CATS & DOGS as (normally) being housed humanely ! We dont agree with CAGED BIRDS in Homes ~ they always look SAD ! *Caged & Enslaved Fellow Humans* is a great scourge on HUMANITY. An apt PUNISHMENT is caging the perpertrators in PRISON ~ AMEN !
Blessings & Peace & Joy & Love
Yours BRIAN & ANGELA 💙🧡💙🧡💙
Fly to freedom indeed.
Our ugliness imprisons the beauty we lack
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