Your song you sing
without a care
for rhythmic cadence
or pleasing an audience
Your hunger you feed
but haven’t the need
for black truffles
served in fancy crystal
You fashion a home
from twigs and leaves
Still, you soar –
Stay true to your core.
Linking to One Shot Wednesday
Image by wwarby
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Awww Belinda, I love this!
Nice, Belinda. I love it — expressed deeply from within.
We could learn a lot from animals, now couldn’t we? Beautiful photo!
Perfect title for natural song, so artful in simplicity that leads to flight by their nature. Great poetry/nature connection expressed, as well as the notion of the artist often needing to throw caution to the wind, which you state through form—making it even more effective.
Hi Belinda,
Beautiful birds! They sing all day, if only we’d take time out to listen to them. My yard is filled with birds fluttering around, serenading me in my home office, guiding my walks around my yard.
The other day I said to my husband, “how neat to be able to go food shopping right where you live!”
Your lovely poem is a wonderful reminder to strip off the shackles of complexity we put on our backs without thinking if it’s going to break them.
Thanks! G.
both in form and diction you compliment your message well. great job
Monty / bum
beautiful belinda…true to their core…authentic love.
Love this poem! Perfect, relatable (we have trees right outside our bedroom window, with some lively birds – which my cat really likes).
Stunning words, photo and you…I just love your blog and all the joy it brings.
staying true to who you are…props on that…nicely done poem…
Oh yes.. still you soar… a great tribute to the winged friends…
I liked it so much…
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I love this so much. Particularly the bit about staying true to our core. But what if we do not know what our core *is* ultimately? How then to stay true to it? I guess this is a question about that ever-shifting sea of identity, huh?
And the nest? Perfect.
“Stay true your core.” Love this message Belinda.
Although somedays I grapple with how to find my core.
Great post. Staying true to who we are is all we can do. Once we do that, we can start to grow even faster.
Belinda,
This is just lovely…
It reminds me that I can soar, no matter what…and that’s just a beautiful message…